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More than a decade ago, China decided to take a long hard look at the way it managed it water resources. Its aim was to put an end to the devastating floods and pollution that had long blighted the country and held back its economic development. The result has been nothing short of revolutionary. In just 15 years, China has gone from being behind the curve to a world leader in in water-related technology and regulatory oversight. In this article we look at three areas in which China has played a pioneering role, and where the rest of the world might be able to learn from its example.
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China accounts for nearly 21 percent of the global population but has only 6 percent of the world's freshwater, and per capita water availability in China is about 25 percent of the global average. China, like most other countries, has primarily used supply-side solutions to make water available whenever a city or town has required additional volumes of water. In recent decades, as the country's water requirement has increased, it has fulfilled it through the extensive use of large-scale inter-basin transfers, including through the mammoth South-North Water Transfer Project. In the near future, however, China may need to use demand management practices to reduce the relatively high use of water by households, and the industrial and agricultural sectors. And although it has been reducing per hectare use of water in agriculture since 2005, similar breakthroughs have been slow in coming in the industrial and household sectors.
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This special issue of Water International presents a selection of papers from the Xiamen Law School (China) symposium on "Promoting Transboundary Water Cooperation - a focus on China", convened in Xiamen in May 2014. Through legal and governance analysis looking at China / Asia / comparative transboundary state practice, this collection of papers provides new insights for how China might go forward with managing its significant transboundary water resources.
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