A study on regional difference of fresh water resources shortage in China
中国水资源短缺地域差异研究

The classification of water shortage degree and shortage types of various provinces,re-gions and municipalities(excluding Taiwan)throughout China was carried out in the study by using comprehensive evaluation method and taking per capita available amount of water re-sources,per unit area available amount of water resources,per capita amount of water supplied and per unit GDP available water resources as indicators.According to the water shortage com-posite index number,water sufficient district,fragile district,water deficit district and serious deficit district are identified.In light with differential value of per capita available amount of wa-ter resources,per unit area available amount of water resources,per capita amount of water sup-plied with national mean value,resources type,engineering type and overloading type are catego-rized.