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JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages 613-625Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.110
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Water resources; System dynamics; Sustainable utilization; Water demand-supply gap
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71573034]
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Water resources play an important role in demographic, social, and economic development. The present study divides the macroeconomic factors that affect the sustainable use of water resources into five major subsystems: economy, population, water supply and demand, land resources, and water pollution and management It then constructs a feedback loop and stock-flow chart of the systems with the system dynamics model to simulate water supply and demand conditions and future changes in the gap between supply and demand from 2005 to 2020. Further, this study designs different development programs to simulate the changes to the key variables by changing the value of important model parameters. It is found that a balanced development program can achieve not only steady economic growth, provide a demographic dividend, and protect arable land resources, but also maximize the sewage treatment rate and improve the reutilization efficiency of water. Moreover, we find that the fundamental way in which to bridge the gap between the supply and demand of water resources is to improve water supply rather than control demand. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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