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Environmental Sustainability of Water Footprint in Mainland China

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Water footprint (WF) measures human appropriation of water resources for consumptive use of surface and ground water (blue WF) and soil water (green WF) and for assimilating polluted water (grey WF). Questions have been often asked about the exact meaning behind the numbers from WF accounting. However, to date envi-ronmental sustainability of WF has never been assessed at the sub-national level over time. This study evaluated the environmental sustainability of blue, green and grey WF for China's 31 mainland provinces in 2002, 2007 and 2012, and identified the unsustainable hotspots. Overall, the total WF increased by 30％between 2002 and 2012. The growth can be attributed to the increase of grey WF because the green and blue WF showed only a slight rise. Among all provinces investigated in 2012, eleven showed unsustainable blue WF (sustainability index SI<0), which were mainly located in the North China Plain. There were 12 provinces that displayed unsustainable green WF, and they were distributed in China's southern and southeastern areas. The grey WF was not sustainable in approximately two third of provinces (19), which were mainly located in China's middle and northern regions and Guangdong province. More than half of China's provinces showed trends of improved SI of green and blue WF from 2002 to 2012. However, the SI of grey WF decreased in almost two third of provinces. Poor levels of WF sustainability were due to water scarcity and pollution, which intensify the degradation of local rivers and ecosystems and make restoration more difficult. The results shed light on the policy making needed to improve sustainable water management, and ecological restoration of hotspot regions.

Green waterBlue waterGrey waterSustainable developmentEcological restoration

Junguo Liu、Dandan Zhao、Ganquan Mao、Wenhui Cui、He Chen、Hong Yang

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School of Environmental Science and Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen 518055,China

Water&Development Research Group,Department of Built Environment,Aalto University,PO Box 15200,Espoo 00076,Finland

Department of Systems Analysis,Integrated Assessment and Modelling,Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology(Eawag),Dübendorf 8600,Switzerland

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Founda-tion of ChinaStrategic Priority Research Pro-gram of the Chinese Academy of SciencesPengcheng Scholar Program of Shenzhen,the National High-level Talents Special Support Plan("Ten Thousand Talents Plan")and the Leading Innovative Talent Program for young and middle-aged scholars by the Ministry of Science and TechnologyIt was also supported by the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution ControlState Environmen-tal Protection Key Laboratory of Integrated Surface Water-Groundwater Pollution ControlHigh-level Special Funding of the Southern Uni-versity of Science and TechnologyHigh-level Special Funding of the Southern Uni-versity of Science and Technology

Grant 41625001Grant XDA20060402Grant 2017B030301012Grant G02296302G02296402

2020

地理学与可持续性(英文)

地理学与可持续性(英文)

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年,卷(期)：2020.1(1)
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