Water Resources In Shanxi Use Analysis

Shanxi Province is a severe water shortage area. As a majorenergy and heavy chemical industry base in China, the requirement ofthe industrial and agricultural production development, and improvingurban and rural residents’living standard further accelerate thescale and speed of water resources utilization. However, limitedwater supply in Shanxi Province can not meet the requirements of itseconomic development, and further worsens the regional watershortage conflicts.This paper analyzes the development and changes of the actualwater consumption in the whole province and local-level cities in thepast10years, from2000to2009, summarizes the trends and thecharacteristics of the water resources development in ShanxiProvince. It does cluster analysis and principal component analysis ofthe actual water consumption of the local-level cities,and also doesthe analysis of each water-use index，including the analysis of thewater exploitation and utilization to the whole province andlocal-level cities, the analysis of water supply comprehensiveproduction capacity and the total water supply,the analysis of thewater consumption per capita and the water utilization, in order toget a comprehensive understanding and grasp of the comprehensive actual situation of the water usage in Shanxi.Through the comparative analysis about the water utilizationsituation of areas in the eastern, central and western China,summarizes the evolution characteristics of the water consumptionin agricultural, industrial and residential aspects of Shanxi, and itsranking around China.This paper evaluates the water resources utilization in ShanxiProvince and reveals the existing problems, and finally provides withrespective solutions and recommendations to improve its waterresource development and utilization management.