TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yu, Xiaoman
A1  - Geng, Yong
A1  - Heck, Peter
A1  - Xue, Bing
T1  - A review of China’s rural water management
T2  - Sustainability
N2  - With less than 6% of total global water resources but one fifth of the global population, China is facing serious challenges for its water resources management, particularly in rural areas due to the long-standing urban-rural dualistic structure and the economic-centralized developmental policies. This paper addresses the key water crises in rural China including potable water supply, wastewater treatment and disposal, water for agricultural purposes, and environmental concerns, and then analyzes the administrative system on water resources from the perspective of characteristics of the current administrative system and regulations; finally, synthetic approaches to solve water problems in rural China are proposed with regard to institutional reform, regulation revision, economic instruments, technology innovation and capacity-building. These recommendations provide valuable insights to water managers in rural China so that they can identify the most appropriate pathways for optimizing their water resources, reducing the total wastewater discharge and improving their water-related ecosystem.
KW  - Wasserwirtschaft
KW  - Wasserverschmutzung
KW  - China
KW  - integrated water management
KW  - water availability
KW  - water pollution
KW  - rural China
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://hst.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/122
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:tr5-1228
VL  - 7
IS  - 5
SP  - 5773
EP  - 5792
PB  - MDPI
ER  -