Influences of Environmental Variations on Available Water Resources in Hebei Province
Abstract: Environmental variations and the influences on available water resources are complicated. According to a great number of statistical and survey data since the 1950s, the data that were analyzed indicated that the available water resources in Hebei Province trended towards decreasing during the last 30 years as the variations of natural environment and human activities increasing. Precipitation reducing and air temperature rising are the basic cause of leading to the water resources decreasing. The continual lowering of groundwater level, which was created by the excess development of groundwater, not only caused surface runoff decreasing but also made groundwater recharge lessening. The level increase of crop output directly consumed a great lot of water resources and soil water, simultaneously had farmland evapotranspiration strengthened, and also brought about surface runoff and groundwater recharge decrease. In the new turn of water resources evaluation, the influences of environmental variations on the water resources will be fully considered. The experimental researches of surface runoff, groundwater recharge, and impact of crop output increase on water resources under the condition of large groundwater depth will be reinforced, in order to enhance the fruit precision of the water resources evaluation of the new turn.
Key words: Available water resources, Climate change, Surface runoff, Groundwater recharge, Crop water requirement
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