长江水资源保护面临的挑战与前景

The major faced problems at present in Yangtze river basin are: ① uneffective control in river water pollution threatens seriously the safety of drinking water; ② shrinkage of lake area and serious eutrophication; ③ soil-water losses degraded the ecological environment of the basin; ④ the impact of TGP and S-N water transfer project on water environment of the basin. In the light of above-mentioned problems, water resources utilization strategy must be adjusted and the sustainable social and economic development should be supported by sustainable water resources utilization, and it is necessary to take the following countermeasures: ① establishing overall flood control and disaster relief system; ② developing high water use efficiency agriculture; ③ taking "giving priority to water saving on the basis of pollution control" as urban water resources utilization strategy; ④ implementing comprehensive pollution control strategy with sources control as main point; ⑤ guaranteing water demand of the ecological environment; ⑥implementing the strategy of maintaining water resources supply and demand balance on the basis of water demand management; ⑦ studying countermeasures for the ecological and environmental impacts of trans-basin water transfer and western China devolopment. The key of realization of sustainable water resources utilization is to reform management and investment mechanism of water resources and water price policy. It is the only way to solve the water resources problems in Yangtze river basin as well as the whole China.     

Preface

The EU China River Basin Management Programme is a joint effort of the EU and China to support China implementing its national water sector strategy and contribute to the national objective of"sustainable management and use of China’s water resources that are compatible with socio-economic development and natural global change".     

Introduction to Water Science and Engineering Editorial Board of Water Science and Engineering

Water, the source of life, is of great concern to the people of the 21 st century, who face growing problems related to population, natural resources, and environment. Continuous social and economic development and an increased level of human activity are straining water resources and causing an imbalance between water supply and water demand in many countries. Research at home and abroad indicates that 2/3 of the world＇s population will live with water scarcity in the future.     

CHINA WATER RESOURCES

China is facing the challenge of water resources shortage. With the economic and social development in China, the drinking water shortage occurs in many places, while lack of adequate drinking water is especially serious in the rural remote, poorly off and minority area of the middle and western China. Up to the end of 1999, there were still 50.2 million rural residents lacking of adequate drinking water.     

Potential Significance of the EU Water Framework Directive to China

The European Union Water Framework Directive (EU WFD) is a unique piece of legislation, which may be of great significance to on-going reforms of the water sector in China. First and foremost it unites 27 European member states behind a common goal, which is “to achieve good chemical and ecological status” of all water bodies across the EU. Other significant characteristics of the EU WFD are that (1) it sets a clear timeframe with a number of time-bound actions for member states to achieve the goal, but leaves it to member states to achieve this goal in a decentralised process, which makes allowance for the different socio-economic conditions, (2) it defines the river basin as the management unit for water thus departing with the traditional fragmented management by administrative units and it appoints a single competent authority for water management within each river basin, thus facilitating resolution of sector conflicts, (3) it requires a financial and economic analysis of the costs of implementing the EU WFD to enable decision makers to assess whether the required improvements are affordable to government and to the population within the river basin, and (4) it requires a structured process for information and consultation with stakeholders and the public throughout the planning and implementation process.     

THE SLOP FLUX METHOD FOR NUMERICAL BALANCE IN USING ROE＇S APPROXIMATE RIEMANN SOLVER

Imbalance arises when the Roe’s method is directly applied in the shallow water simulation.The reasons are different for the continuity equation and the momentum equations.Based on the Roe’s method,a partial surface method is proposed for a perfect balance for the continuity equation.In order to generate a mathematically hyperbolic formulation,the momentum equations are split,which causes incompatibility in the calculation of the momentum equations.In this article a numerical approach named the Slop Flux Method(SFM)is proposed to balance the source terms and the flux gradient based on the finite volume method.The method is first applied to shallow water equations.The model is verified by analytical results of classical test cases with good agreement.Finally the method is applied to a steady flow simulation over a practical complicated topography and the result shows good balance and conservation.     

ESTIMATION OF WATER TABLE ELEVATION BY UNIVERSAL COKRIGING

When water resource or quality problems assoelated with phreatic water in geological settings are studied,information about water table elevations is often crucial. In those eases where the water table is a subdued replica of the ground surface, universal cokriging can be used to estimate water table elevations at un sampled locations on the basis of water table and ground surface elevation measurements obrained at well locations. In this paper, universal cokriging,with ground surface elevation considered as a co variate, was used to estimate water table elevations. Universal cokriging equations were derived, an iterative method for obtaining experimental variograms was established, and a ease study of an initial groundwater flow simulation in the Xiuwu County,Henan Province, China, was presented. In the ease study,the initial groundwater flow regime was represented both by universal cokriging with the ground surface elevation serving as a covariate and by universal kriging without the inclusion of ground surface elevation as a covariate. A comparison of the results from these two approaches shows that groundwater levels of phreatic water at locations without measurements in regions with unconsolidated porous media can be estimated more accurately by universal cokriging.     

Real-time flood forecasting of Huai River with flood diversion and retarding areas

A combination of the rainfall-runoff module of the Xin’anjiang model, the Muskingum routing method, the water stage simulating hydrologic method, the diffusion wave nonlinear water stage method, and the real-time error correction method is applied to the real-time flood forecasting and regulation of the Huai River with flood diversion and retarding areas. The Xin’anjiang model is used to forecast the flood discharge hydrograph of the upstream and tributary. The flood routing of the main channel and flood diversion areas is based on the Muskingum method. The water stage of the downstream boundary condition is calculated with the water stage simulating hydrologic method and the water stages of each cross section are calculated from downstream to upstream with the diffusion wave nonlinear water stage method. The input flood discharge hydrograph from the main channel to the flood diversion area is estimated with the fixed split ratio of the main channel discharge. The flood flow inside the flood retarding area is calculated as a reservoir with the water balance method. The faded-memory forgetting factor least square of error series is used as the real-time error correction method for forecasting discharge and water stage. As an example, the combined models were applied to flood forecasting and regulation of the upper reaches of the Huai River above Lutaizi during the 2007 flood season. The forecast achieves a high accuracy and the results show that the combined models provide a scientific way of flood forecasting and regulation for a complex watershed with flood diversion and retarding areas.     

Optimization and coordination of South-to-North Water Diversion supply chain with strategic customer behavior

The South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) Project is a significant engineering project meant to solve water shortage problems in North China. Faced with market operations management of the water diversion system, this study defined the supply chain system for the SNWD Project, considering the actual project conditions, built a decentralized decision model and a centralized decision model with strategic customer behavior (SCB) using a floating pricing mechanism (FPM), and constructed a coordination mechanism via a revenue-sharing contract. The results suggest the following: (1) owing to water shortage supplements and the excess water sale policy provided by the FPM, the optimal ordering quantity of water resources is less than that without the FPM, and the optimal profits of the whole supply chain, supplier, and external distributor are higher than they would be without the FPM; (2) wholesale pricing and supplementary wholesale pricing with SCB are higher than those without SCB, and the optimal profits of the whole supply chain, supplier, and external distributor are higher than they would be without SCB; and (3) considering SCB and introducing the FPM help increase the optimal profits of the whole supply chain, supplier, and external distributor, and improve the efficiency of water resources usage.     

Comparison between dynamic programming and genetic algorithm for hydro unit economic load dispatch

The hydro unit economic load dispatch （ELD） is of great importance in energy conservation and emission reduction. Dynamic programming （DP） and genetic algorithm （GA） are two representative algorithms for solving ELD problems. The goal of this study was to examine the performance of DP and GA while they were applied to ELD. We established numerical experiments to conduct performance comparisons between DP and GA with two given schemes. The schemes included comparing the CPU time of the algorithms when they had the same solution quality, and comparing the solution quality when they had the same CPU time. The numerical experiments were applied to the Three Gorges Reservoir in China, which is equipped with 26 hydro generation units. We found the relation between the performance of algorithms and the number of units through experiments. Results show that GA is adept at searching for optimal solutions in low-dimensional cases. In some cases, such as with a number of units of less than 10, GA＇s performance is superior to that of a coarse-grid DP. However, GA loses its superiority in high-dimensional cases. DP is powerful in obtaining stable and high-quality solutions. Its performance can be maintained even while searching over a large solution space. Nevertheless, due to its exhaustive enumerating nature, it costs excess time in low-dimensional cases.