subject: Chengdu 20 Years Or Nowhere To Find A Serious Water Shortage Caused By Four Major Reasons [print this page] For water rich from the "Land of Abundance" because the city has become a serious water shortage, expert analysis has four main areas: water consumption increased significantly. As the urban scale, water started to increase substantially, "Since 2008, Chengdu, water consumption rate of 8% annual growth."; Pollution so that part of the river dead. City size and the growing population size, also led to Water Pollution Serious. It is estimated that in the Chengdu Plain, every square kilometers and 1.22 kilometers of rivers. The lack of running water, loss of self-purification ability river, some rivers die, and other rivers were reduced to production and living waste water sewer and rainy season of the spillway, can no longer water; "5? 12" the impact of the earthquake. In Dujiangyan, widespread reduction of surface water, ground water level drop phenomena, "especially after the earthquake, in addition to parts of the water table had dropped, and some local water sources and ground water inexplicably disappeared." Another reason is that higher temperatures and Arid Weather. River as the main water supply in Chengdu, in people's minds, Minjiang River has always been rich in water resources. But the head of Administration of Dujiangyan in Sichuan, said this enrichment is "relatively rich" In fact, the Minjiang River runoff has been decreasing in recent decades, "every 10 years by 5%, this is still a few years the proportion of somewhat higher. " In addition, with the temperature rising in recent years, the upper reaches of Minjiang River has been declining snowfall. In recent years, drought has also had an impact to the Minjiang River. Chengdu, the responsible water company said that this year, Liu Chang in Pihe River water intake on the water level dropped to nearly 10 years once again to the lowest point.
Chengdu 20 Years Or Nowhere To Find A Serious Water Shortage Caused By Four Major Reasons
