Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages 8950-8964Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su7078950
Keywords
water allocation; Heihe River; Zhangye City; WUA; water productivity
Funding
- Flagship Research Fund of Sophia University
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A water allocation policy that aimed to balance water demand with water availability to ensure sustainability was implemented in an arid region of China over ten years ago. This policy's success was assessed across three dimensions: society, the environment, and the economy. While the assessment was not intended to be comprehensive, it highlighted the best outcomes of the policy intervention while revealing some hidden issues. It was found that although the policy was successful in placing a ceiling on water use in the middle reaches of the Heihe River, the Water User Association, one of the main actors in water policy implementation, was under-recognized, even though it functioned well. Moreover, the economic structural adjustment at the macro level had not led to any significant reduction in water use, the reasons for which were explored.
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