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DOI	10.3390/w11020362
	Scarcity of Drinking Water in Taihu Lake Basin, China: A Case Study of Yixing City
	Lou, Sha 1; Huang, Wenrui 1,2; Liu, Shuguang 1,3; Zhong, Guihui 1
通讯作者	Lou, Sha
来源期刊	WATER
EISSN	2073-4441
出版年	2019
卷号	11 期号:2
英文摘要	Water use has been growing globally at more than twice the rate of the population increase over the last century. Water scarcity is one of the main problems facing the world, especially the scarcity of clean and safe drinking water. Scarcity of drinking water is not only relevant in arid or semiarid regions, but also occurs in water-rich regions due to the decline in water quantity caused by pollution or salinity intrusion. As a part of Taihu Lake Basin, a famous water-rich region in China, Yixing City has a total area of 1996.6 km(2), including 242.29 km(2) from Taihu Lake, 215 rivers with an area of 130 km(2), more than 20 ponds with an area of 0.05 km(2), and 20 reservoirs with a total capacity of 126 million m(3). There always has enough water in Yixing City. However, meteorological conditions and water quality both affect the available drinking water sources. Poor-quality water was used as a drinking water source in Yixing City during a drought event in 2011. Approximately 1.4 x 10(7) m(3) of poor-quality water was used for drinking water in Yixing city, providing 37.13% of the total drinking water. It was a source of concern that the water quality was too poor to be used as drinking water and that the water treatment processes were expensive. The scarcity of drinking water has become a serious issue, not only in arid and semiarid regions but also in water towns such as Taihu Lake Basin, and this issue requires society's attention. Many measures should be taken to relieve the drinking water shortage, such as seeking new drinking water sources, protecting the current water source areas, controlling pollution emissions, and implementing effective water resource management.
英文关键词	drinking water source drinking water scarcity water demand water quality decline
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Peoples R China ; USA
开放获取类型	Green Submitted, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000460899600181
WOS关键词	CLIMATE-CHANGE ; SECURITY ; DROUGHT ; MANAGEMENT ; AREA
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Water Resources
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Water Resources
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/219172
作者单位	1.Tongji Univ, Dept Hydraul Engn, Shanghai 200092, Peoples R China; 2.Florida State Univ, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA; 3.Tongji Univ, Minist Educ, Key Lab Yangtze River Water Environm, Dept Hydraul Engn, Shanghai 200092, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lou, Sha,Huang, Wenrui,Liu, Shuguang,et al. Scarcity of Drinking Water in Taihu Lake Basin, China: A Case Study of Yixing City[J],2019,11(2).
APA	Lou, Sha,Huang, Wenrui,Liu, Shuguang,&Zhong, Guihui.(2019).Scarcity of Drinking Water in Taihu Lake Basin, China: A Case Study of Yixing City.WATER,11(2).
MLA	Lou, Sha,et al."Scarcity of Drinking Water in Taihu Lake Basin, China: A Case Study of Yixing City".WATER 11.2(2019).