Groundwater Overexploitation in the North China Plain : : a Path to Sustainability.

• Superior document: Springer Water Series
• Author: Kinzelbach, Wolfgang.
• TeilnehmendeR: Wang, Haijing.; Li, Yu.; Wang, Lu.; Li, Ning.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Springer Water Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (171 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Units -- Abbreviations -- Units -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Groundwater Over-Pumping and Consequences -- 1.2 What Does Sustainable Groundwater Use Mean? -- 1.3 Role of Irrigation in Over-Pumping in NCP -- 1.4 Requirements for Sustainability in NCP and Guantao as an Example -- References -- 2 Policy Options of Over-Pumping Control in the NCP -- 2.1 China's Groundwater Policies in Recent years -- 2.1.1 Permit Policy for Well Drilling -- 2.1.2 Well-Spacing Policy -- 2.1.3 Quota Management -- 2.1.4 Water Resources Fee and Tax -- 2.1.5 Irrigation Water Price Policy -- 2.1.6 Water Rights System and Water Markets -- 2.1.7 National Policy Focus: NCP's Groundwater Over-Pumping -- 2.2 Groundwater Over-Pumping Control Measures in Hebei Province -- 2.2.1 Seasonal Land Fallowing -- 2.2.2 Substitution of Non-food Crops for Grain Crops -- 2.2.3 Replacing Groundwater by Surface Water -- 2.2.4 Buy-Back of Water Rights -- 2.2.5 "Increase Price and Provide Subsidy" -- 2.2.6 Tiered Scheme of Water Fees -- 2.2.7 Import of Surface Water Versus Water Saving and Change of Cropping Structure -- 2.3 Governance Structure in the Water Sector -- 2.3.1 Governmental Stakeholders in Water Sector -- 2.3.2 Stakeholders in the Electricity Sector Related to Irrigation -- 2.3.3 Stakeholders in the Water Sector of Guantao County -- References -- 3 Cropping Choices and Farmers' Options -- 3.1 Options of Optimizing Crop Structure in Hebei-Beijing-Tianjin Region -- 3.1.1 Introduction -- 3.1.2 Optimization Scenarios -- 3.1.3 Scenario Analysis of Planting Structure Optimization -- 3.1.4 Conclusion and Discussion -- 3.2 Farmers' Feedback in a Household Survey on Seasonal Land Fallowing -- 3.2.1 Effects of Seasonal Land Fallowing -- 3.2.2 Challenges of Implementing SLFP.

3.3 Farmers' Reaction to Policy Assessed Through a Groundwater Game -- 3.3.1 Introduction -- 3.3.2 Data and Materials -- 3.3.3 Results -- 3.3.4 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 4 Decision Support for Local Water Authorities in Guantao -- 4.1 Hydrogeological Basis: Shallow Versus Deep Groundwater -- 4.1.1 Borehole Locations -- 4.1.2 Borehole Logs and Pumping Tests -- 4.1.3 The Distribution of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) -- 4.2 Monitoring Options -- 4.2.1 Groundwater Level Monitoring (Contributed by CIGEM and GIWP) -- 4.2.2 Groundwater Pumping Monitoring -- 4.2.3 Pumping Electricity Monitoring -- 4.2.4 Land Use Monitoring -- 4.3 Modeling for Decision Support -- 4.3.1 Box Model -- 4.3.2 Distributed Groundwater Model for Guantao -- 4.3.3 Real-Time Groundwater Model -- 4.3.4 Data Driven Groundwater Model -- 4.4 An Integrated Decision Support System (DSS) -- 4.4.1 Motivation -- 4.4.2 Key components -- 4.4.3 Architecture of the GTDSS -- References -- 5 Way Forward -- 5.1 Recommendations for Guantao -- 5.2 Agriculture and Future Groundwater Management in the NCP -- 5.2.1 Transition from Smallholder Agriculture to Larger Farms -- 5.2.2 Consumer Behavior and Food Demand -- 5.3 Drought Resistant and High Yield Wheat Varieties -- 5.4 Importing Surface Water: Benefit and Risk -- 5.5 Climate Change in the NCP -- References -- Final Remarks -- Appendices: Technical Guides and Manuals of Tools.