Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Yellow River Basin
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Yellow River basin in China. The Yellow River rises in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, and empties into the Bohai Sea. A unique feature of the river is the large amo...
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CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
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| author | Mainuddin, M. Eastham, Judy Kirby, M. Thomas, M. |
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| description | This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the
series, to the Yellow River basin in China. The Yellow River rises in the Bayan Har
Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, and empties into the Bohai Sea. A
unique feature of the river is the large amount of silt it carries.
Net runoff is about 14% of total precipitation. Forest and woodland cover 9% of the
basin and use about 15% of the precipitation. Grassland covers much of the upper part
of the Basin, consuming about 42% of the precipitation. Irrigated agriculture covers just
6% of the Basin and uses about 11% of the water.
The effect of increased irrigation efficiency shows that local increase of irrigation
efficiency does not necessarily translate into changes at the whole basin level. The
water transfer to the Yellow River from the Yangtze boost flows to the upper Yellow river
and leads to an increase in the flows throughout the river.
Keywords: Water use accounts, Yellow basin, top-down modeling, basin water use |
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| spelling | CGSpace46992025-11-12T07:32:30Z Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Yellow River Basin Mainuddin, M. Eastham, Judy Kirby, M. Thomas, M. water use modeling This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Yellow River basin in China. The Yellow River rises in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, and empties into the Bohai Sea. A unique feature of the river is the large amount of silt it carries. Net runoff is about 14% of total precipitation. Forest and woodland cover 9% of the basin and use about 15% of the precipitation. Grassland covers much of the upper part of the Basin, consuming about 42% of the precipitation. Irrigated agriculture covers just 6% of the Basin and uses about 11% of the water. The effect of increased irrigation efficiency shows that local increase of irrigation efficiency does not necessarily translate into changes at the whole basin level. The water transfer to the Yellow River from the Yangtze boost flows to the upper Yellow river and leads to an increase in the flows throughout the river. Keywords: Water use accounts, Yellow basin, top-down modeling, basin water use 2010 2011-07-20T17:55:54Z 2011-07-20T17:55:54Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/4699 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food Mainuddin, M., Eastham, J., Kirby, M. and Thomas, M. 2010. Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Yellow River Basin. CPWF Working Paper BFP11. Colombo, Sri Lanka: The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. 29pp. |
| spellingShingle | water use modeling Mainuddin, M. Eastham, Judy Kirby, M. Thomas, M. Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Yellow River Basin |
| title | Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Yellow River Basin |
| title_full | Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Yellow River Basin |
| title_fullStr | Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Yellow River Basin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Yellow River Basin |
| title_short | Water-use accounts in CPWF basins: Simple water-use accounting of the Yellow River Basin |
| title_sort | water use accounts in cpwf basins simple water use accounting of the yellow river basin |
| topic | water use modeling |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/4699 |
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