¹Institute of Environmental Science, Beijing Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Beijing 100875, China
²2RCE-TEA, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.
^*Corresponding author: zengwh@bnu.edu.cn

Abstract

  Along with population explosion and social economic development, human beings continuously intensify the exploitation and use of water resources. The trend of water shortage becomes more austere day by day, and the conflicts among sectors of water resources consumers are also becoming increasingly acute. There are major conflicts dealing with water resources conservation, farmland irrigation, and domestic water utilization, as well as those among upper and lower river reaches and sustainable consumption. These conflicts in different sectors, districts and time periods can not be reconciled through traditional scattered methods of management; the only solution is through integrated management of water resources in river basins.
This paper starts by analyzing the progressing course and problems of water resources management in river basins in China and abroad, stands on the practical problems of water resources management and systematically generates the model, organization structure and technical framework of integrated management of river basins that would meet the conditions in China. The study was based on the analysis of a complicated system of water resources in river basins, and on theories of conflict analysis.