China’s challenges to water resources management

Northern China has less than half the water per person than the absolutely water-scare Egypt. This simple comparison helps us to understand that China is among the planet’s regions, which will face greatest water-related challenges in the coming dacades.  Its rapid urbanization, industrialization, growing agricultural demand, environmental degradation, and potential climate-related threats will be the major driving forces that challenge the management and utilization of China’s water resources over the decades to come. China’s urban population is expected to exceed doubling within one generation, 2025. In this presentation is put global perspective, in the time frame of 1970-2025. The following forces are under study: population growth, urbanization and other patterns of migrigation, changes and variations in climate, nature, and the environment, economy and its level of globalization, as well as human capital, technology and industrialization.