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Water Resources Allocation, Planning and Management

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Science and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 March 2023) | Viewed by 7435

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Dr. Yanhu He

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Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Quality, Improvement and Ecological Restoration for Watersheds, Institute of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
Interests: water resources allocation and management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Water resources are the foundation for socio-economic development and the ecosystem. However, the increasing uncertainty of regional water resources caused by climate change and intensive human activities poses a great challenge for water supply security.

During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid by scholars and professionals to techniques and technologies for improving water resources management, which represent a significant percentage of the sustainable development goal. As part of the adaptive strategies, it is important to propose advanced water resource allocation models and techniques, from the perspective of equity and efficiency. This is a solid technological support for effective water resources management. 

At the same time, ways to derive spatial equilibrium configuration of water infrastructures proved to be very challenging because of the need to balance on the one hand the regional socioeconomic development, and on the other hand that of evaluating the level of water resources exploitation.

Current research has focused on the models and techniques for spatial equilibrium configuration of water resources and the related water infrastructure, together with methods and tools to improve water resources management.

This Special Issue aims at enlarging this knowledge, and welcomes original research related to techniques, technologies and methodological approaches to the spatial equilibrium configuration of water resources and the related water infrastructure, along with ways to improve water resources management. The discussion of case studies, as well as simulation works, is encouraged.

Dr. Yanhu He
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • water resources
  • uncertainty
  • water resources management
  • equity and efficiency
  • spatial equilibrium configuration
  • water resources exploitation
  • water infrastructure
  • water resources allocation
  • models and techniques

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The Life cycle Assessment Integrated with the Lexicographic Method for the Multi-Objective Optimization of Community-Based Rainwater Utilization
by Yi Li, Wenjun Xu, Wenlong Zhang, Youyi Huang, Fenfen Wan and Wei Xiong
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2183; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032183 - 25 Jan 2023
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Community-based rainwater utilization (CB-RWU) has the advantage of easy maintenance and multiple benefits. However, its promotion proves to be a complicated task due to difficulties in quantifying and evaluating external benefits. This study integrated the life cycle assessment (LCA) with a multi-objective optimization [...] Read more.
Community-based rainwater utilization (CB-RWU) has the advantage of easy maintenance and multiple benefits. However, its promotion proves to be a complicated task due to difficulties in quantifying and evaluating external benefits. This study integrated the life cycle assessment (LCA) with a multi-objective optimization model to optimize the relationship among all stages of CB-RWU, considering the trade-offs among the benefit–cost ratio, water-saving efficiency and environmental impact. The LCA results identified abiotic depletion potential for fossil fuels (ADPF) as the key impact indicators throughout the life cycle of CB-RWU. The optimal solution from the lexicographic method was 0.3098, 28.47% and 24.68 MJ for the benefit–cost ratio, water-saving efficiency and ADPF, respectively. Compared with the traditional optimization method, the lexicographic method improved the three object functions by 26%, 43% and 14%, respectively. The uncertainty of the environmental impact was the highest (CV = 0.633) with variations in the floor area ratio, total runoff coefficient and reservoir volume. Changes in the total runoff coefficient were the main source of the uncertainty, which suggested that more attention should be paid to the area ratio of each underlying surface. In addition, economic support from the government is urgently required for the further promotion and development of CB-RWU. Full article
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The Coupling Coordination Measurement, Spatio-Temporal Differentiation and Driving Mechanism of Urban and Rural Water Poverty in Northwest China
by Yun Ding, Shiqi Zhang, Ruifan Xu, Yuan Gao, Hao Ding, Pengfei Sun and Wenxin Liu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2043; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032043 - 22 Jan 2023
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Regarding the background of the “urban–rural dual structure”, the scientific evaluation of the relationship between urban and rural water resource systems is of great significance for alleviating water use contradictions and optimizing water resource allocation. Based on the theory of water poverty, the [...] Read more.
Regarding the background of the “urban–rural dual structure”, the scientific evaluation of the relationship between urban and rural water resource systems is of great significance for alleviating water use contradictions and optimizing water resource allocation. Based on the theory of water poverty, the coupling coordination model was used to quantify the relationship between the urban and rural water resource systems in northwest China from 2000 to 2020; furthermore, the spatial and temporal evolution characteristics and driving mechanism were studied by using spatial autocorrelation, a hot spot analysis and the Tobit model. The result showed the following: ① The scores of urban and rural water poverty have risen significantly, and the urban and rural water resource systems have improved significantly. Among them, urban water poverty demonstrated a tiered pattern of “east–middle–west”, and rural water poverty demonstrated a pattern of collapse of “high on both sides and low in the middle”. ② The overall degree of coupling coordination between urban and rural water poverty has greatly improved. However, nearly 70% of the regions are still of the basic uncoordinated type, and the differences between regions have been gradually expanding, showing a state of agglomeration in space, mainly of the low–high and high–high agglomeration types. The hot spot area was mainly concentrated in the southeast area, showing a gradual expansion trend, and the cold spot area was mainly concentrated in the central area, showing a gradual shrinking trend. ③ The level of economic development, industrial structure and agricultural production demonstrated a positive impact on the degree of coupling coordination. The degree of industrialization, the level of opening, technological progress, population size, expenditure on supporting agriculture and environmental regulation had different effects on the degree of regional coupling coordination. Different strategies should be adopted to promote the coupled and coordinated development of urban and rural water resource systems. Full article
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Research on Evaluation Method for Urban Water Circulation Health and Related Applications: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province
by Mengdie Zhao, Jinhang Li, Jinliang Zhang, Yuping Han and Runxiang Cao
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(17), 10552; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710552 - 24 Aug 2022
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The acceleration of urbanization and climate change has increasingly impacted the health level of urban dual water cycles. In order to accurately evaluate the health status of urban water cycles, the evaluation system covers four standard layers of water ecology, water abundance, water [...] Read more.
The acceleration of urbanization and climate change has increasingly impacted the health level of urban dual water cycles. In order to accurately evaluate the health status of urban water cycles, the evaluation system covers four standard layers of water ecology, water abundance, water quality and water use, including 19 basic indicators such as water storage change and annual average precipitation. Three-scale AHP and EFAST algorithms are adopted to set the criterion and index layer weights. Water-cycle health assessment models are based on the improved TOPSIS model. The model evaluated Zhengzhou’s water cycle health from 2011 to 2021. We compared the TOPSIS model and FCE method to ensure the scientific objectivity of the evaluation results. The evaluation results indicated that the water cycle in Zhengzhou City improved annually, and the relative progress in 2020 was 0.567 in a sub-health state. The eco-environmental water demand, green coverage rate of the built district, water resources amount, and industry’s water consumption per unit of value added (CNY 10,000) were the major obstacles. These four factors have preponderantly influenced Zhengzhou City’s water cycle health. Our research results provide scientific reference for Zhengzhou to achieve a healthy urban water cycle and regional sustainable development. Full article
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Development and Path of Reclaimed Water Utilization Policy in China: Visual Analysis Based on CNKI and WOS
by Junjie Li, Xin Dai, Bei Zhang, Xuehang Sun and Bangfan Liu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(19), 11866; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191911866 - 20 Sep 2022
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In this paper, CiteSpace and NVivo software were used for the knowledge graph visualization and content analysis of highly cited papers in the research literature on reclaimed water utilization policy in CNKI and WOS. The results showed the following: there was an upward [...] Read more.
In this paper, CiteSpace and NVivo software were used for the knowledge graph visualization and content analysis of highly cited papers in the research literature on reclaimed water utilization policy in CNKI and WOS. The results showed the following: there was an upward trend in the number of papers on reclaimed water policy, papers in both databases attached great importance to research on this topic, and the research prospects for this topic are broad. The UK, Greece, Italy, the United States, and France have great influence in the field of reclaimed water utilization policy research. The international influence of China’s research on the topic needs to be improved. There is a lack of communication and cooperation among the subjects of reclaimed water utilization policy research, and a cooperative network with close and benign interactions has not yet been formed. The research hotspots of the topic in China are mainly focused on regional governance, with insufficient attention paid to policy and management, while foreign countries pay more attention to policy and management. Behavior guidance policy and black and smelly water will become research hotspots for domestic policies, while public perception, demand, drinking water, and carbon will become research hotspots for international policies. Domestic research on reclaimed water use policy in highly cited papers focused on water environment and ecological security management, while international research focused on the background of reclaimed water use policy and its implementation, with the main intention of optimizing the ascension path and making international research policies thematically stronger. The attitudes of domestic and foreign researchers regarding reclaimed water utilization policies are mainly rational and emotional, indicating that current policies have a degree of applicability. However, there are also obvious problems that will need to be addressed and improved, and there are substantial development prospects. In the future, research on reclaimed water utilization policies in China should strengthen top-level design, improve the policy system, and increase the supervision of policies to achieve optimization. Full article
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