China: Water Management and Accounting Project

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• China Water Management and Accounting Project
• May 22-24, 2006
• Hague

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• Contents
• Part 1. Water management status in China
• Part 2. Cooperation project related to SEEAW (as
  planed)
• Part 3. Integrated water management based on
  water accounts (as planed)

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• Part 1.
• Water Management Status in China
• A. Water related problems
• B. Water policy and practice

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• A. Water related problems
• a) uneven distribution of water resources
• b) water shortage aggravates
• c) serious flood damage
• d) serious water pollution
• e) problems related to water ecology and
  environment

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a) Water resources uneven distribution
Average rainfall in the north 50-800mm
uneven distribution in space
North water resources 19 population
47 cultivated land 64 GDP 45
South water resources 81 population
53 cultivated land 35 GDP 55
Average rainfall in the south 800-2000mm
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b) water shortage, conflict between water
demand and supply worsen
alarming level
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c) flood control capacity is fairly low, flood
damage is serious
- high flood risk - severe burden on flood
control - serious damage - national average
losses since 1990 was 110 billion yuan
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d) serious water pollution intensifies water
shortage
? construction of wastewater treatment
infrastructure is lagging behind ? pricing
mechanism of urban and industrial wastewater
treatment is far from perfect ? grave water
pollution problem.
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• B. Water policy and practice
• In recent years, guided by the concept of
  sustainable water management, China has
  established series of water policies and achieved
  new progress.

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a) Drinking water safety is priority
- More than 20 billion Yuan has been invested in
past 5 years - 60 million rural population gain
access to drinking water - Provide drinking water
to another 100 million rural residents by 2010
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b) Develop a water saving society

• promote reform on water management system
• complete water quantity allocation for major
  rivers lakes by 2010
• enact water-abstract permission system
• encourage water user participation
• promote technology upgrading products
  application

Water supply project
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c) accelerate construction of flood-control and
disaster-mitigation system to ensure flood
control security
- make room for flood - combine structural
measures with non-structural measures -
invested into comprehensive flood control system
2900km2 water surface restored
reclaimed farmland retreated to lake
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d) emphasize food security and improve
supporting and protecting systems for agriculture
- save agricultural water - secure agricultural
water use - realize zero-increase of total water
use
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e) Accelerate construction of water allocation
projects to enhance regulation on temporal and
spatial distribution of water

• plan and build south-to-north water diversion
  projectvconstruct regional water allocation
  projectsv increase of water supply vrelieve
  ecological deterioration

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f) strengthen water pollution prevention to
restrain further deterioration of water
environment
- About 15,000 enterprises were closed due to
high water consumption and pollution discharge -
Formulating water functioning zone management
system
by 2010
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h) Improve Water management system and mechanism

• establishment and implementation of
  corresponding regulations, policies and technical
  standards
• establishment of water management system based
  on river basin management administrative
  district management
• promotion of urban and rural integrated water
  management
• encourage private capital in water market
  construction and operation.

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Part 2. Cooperation project related to SEEAW (as
planed)

1. Cooperation form
2. Accounting contents
3. Working stages

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• Cooperation form
• Collaborator
• MWR Data source
• NBS National Accounting Background
• Supporter
• UNSD Implementation of SEEAW

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• B. Accounting contents
• Physical accounts
• Flow SUT, emission accounts
• Stock asset accounts, quality accounts
• Monetary accounts
• Protect expenditure

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• C. Working stages
• Staff training
• Data collection (statistics and surveys)
• River basin trial
• Implementation at national level

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• Part 3.
• Integrated water management based on water
  accounts (as planed)
• Indicators
• Implementation

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• Indicators Selection
• Proportion of people with safe drinking water
• Water allocation by sectors
• Water use efficiency
• Investment of infrastructure
• Pricing/cost recovery
• Water quality

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• B. Implementation
• Water resources planning for IWRM
• Promotion of water-saving
• Promotion of water-environment protection
• Collaboration among agencies
• Establishment of adaptable and standard
  methodology facing Chinas water and economic
  situation

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Thank you