The South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China is the world’s largest water transfer project, aiming to address water shortages in northern China by channeling water from the water-rich southern regions. Water resources in Tianjin have lon...
The cracking of concrete linings in the channel of the Yuzhou section of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in Henan Province poses a threat to the structural safety of the project and the water quality environment. To solve this problem, the...
Global freshwaters are severely depleted. Provision of improved water infrastructure technologies and innovation can address challenges posed by water shortages to environmental sustainability. China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project has...
23 November 2021
The South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) provides significant benefits in facilitating water security and improving ecology in northern China. However, few studies have estimated the water value of the SNWD and the corresponding subsequent subsidies...
Water scarcity is a significant challenge in China, and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) aims to address the water deficit in the northern region. This study analyses Landsat 5/7/8 remote sensing imagery from 2001 to 2020 on the Goo...
23 August 2019
The world famous South-to-North Water Transfer Project was built to alleviate serious water shortages in northern China. Considering that lake Hongze is an important freshwater lake in this region, analyzing the influence of water diversion on typica...
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project’s Eastern Route (SNWDPC-ER) has drawn a lot of attention as one of China’s most significant water diversion projects. This study calculated the water quality index (WQI) to analyze the spatial an...
2 November 2022
In order to understand the potential effects of atmospheric nitrogen and phosphorus deposition on the water quality of the Middle Route Project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, samples of dry and wet deposition of atmospheric nitrogen a...
Scientific and effective operation control of the Middle Route of South-to-North Water Diversion Project (MRP) is crucial to ensure water conveyance safety. As the longest water transfer project in China, its operation is confronted with unprecedente...
The South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) is a multi-decadal infrastructure project in China aimed at alleviating severe water shortages in north China. It has imposed broad social, economic, environmental, and ecological impacts since 2015, particul...
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) is the largest water transfer project in the world, and its purpose is to relax water constraints in a region facing severe water scarcity. Bacterial communities from these reservoirs are important t...
Inter-basin water transfer (IBWT) projects are an effective means of addressing regional water resource imbalances. However, owing to the long construction cycle, large investment amount, and wide impact range, water diversion projects exhibit delaye...
The South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) Project has entered the operational stage. The infrastructure decreases water shortages and promotes economic growth for North China, whereas the environmental effects have yet to be fully examined. In this p...
Water quality assurance is the primary factor for the successful operation of water diversion projects across river basins. The rapid prediction of water pollution is the basis for timely and effective emergency control and disposal measures. In Chin...
The lack of water resources has emerged as a major factor limiting the high-quality economic and ecological development in Hebei Province. Therefore, it is of great significance to understand the dynamic changes in terrestrial water storage for effec...
Water scarcity in densely populated areas is a global concern. In China, ensuring water supply and quality in the middle of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has become a major challenge due to the complexity and diversity of landscape featu...
To investigate the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of nitrogen and phosphorus in the water and sediment of the Danjiangkou Reservoir, the source of the Middle Route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project, we designed a ye...
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) is a national strategic project for water shortages in northern China. Climate change will affect the availability of water resources in both source and receiving areas. A grid-based RCCC-WBM model b...
The middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is one of the crucial frameworks of China’s water network and an essential channel for water resource allocation in North China. The safe operation of the project has a huge impact...
As one of the most widespread elements, nitrogen has been broadly concerned in water bodies. Understanding variations in nitrogen is of paramount importance to ecosystem stability and human health. The spatiotemporal variations in total nitrogen (TN)...
As a major grain-producing region in China, the North China Plain (NCP) faces serious challenges such as water shortage and land subsidence. In late 2014, the Central Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWD-C) began to provide NCP w...
Under two different power structures, where the supplier and the distributor, respectively, are modeled as the leader, this paper studies water pricing strategies in two competing water resources supply chains. We assume that each water supply chain...
The Danjiangkou Reservoir (DJKR) serves as the water source for the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (MR-SNWDP), yet comprehensive understanding of its ecosystem structure and function remains limited. This study addressed t...
24 June 2019
In this article, a data matrix of 20 indicators (6960 observations) was obtained from 29 water quality monitoring stations of the Middle Route (MR) of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project of China (SNWDPC). Multivariate statistical techniques i...
This study aims to improve the accuracy and interpretability of deep groundwater level forecasting in Cangzhou, a typical overexploitation area in the North China Plain. To address the limitations of traditional models and existing machine learning a...
The roughness of the aqueduct in the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has increased due to factors such as the natural aging of concrete and biological attachment. To increase the flow capacity of the project, a roughness re...
The Henan section of the Central Line Project of South-to-North Water Diversion (CLPSNWD) plays a crucial role within the overall project, serving as both the water source area and the largest recipient of water. This study aims to construct a compre...
Microbial communities, as critical functional components of riverine ecosystems, play a pivotal role in biogeochemical cycles and water quality regulation. The South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project (SNWD-MRP) is a major cross-basin wate...
Taking Yunyu New Village in Nanyang City, a typical newly built resettlement area of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project of China, as an example, this paper tries to construct a health environment evaluation index system for the resettlement a...
To address the water-use conflicts between the original water-receiving areas of the lower Hongze, Luoma, and Nansihu lakes and the receiving areas of the East Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion (ESNWD) project, a multi-objective simulation-...
Human activities have significantly affected the natural eco-environment, which could lead to land cover changes. The human activity intensity of land surface (HAILS) represent human activity at the regional scale and can be monitored efficiently ove...
13 March 2023
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWD) in China is a trans-basin water transfer project for water resource optimization that affects ecosystem services functions along its main transfer line. Exploring the effects of land-use change on eco...
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project constitutes a fundamental initiative designed to enhance water resource distribution and foster regional coordinated development. To investigate the coupling coordination and its spatiotemporal evolution bet...
The Middle Route Project of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) is a national-level water source protection zone and the ecological safety of its water quality and surrounding soil is of great significance. In this study, heavy met...
Rural domestic sewage, originating from human activities that involve the extraction and utilization of natural resources, is an inherent component of the ecological cycle in nature. Therefore, its disposal methods should align and harmonize with the...
With the increasingly severe problem of water shortage and the increasing contradiction between supply and demand, the optimal allocation of water resources has become an essential method for alleviating the water crisis. In this context, natural-ele...
2 September 2020
Xuzhou is the hub city of the east route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) project and implemented dozens of measures to ensure the water quality security of the water transmission line. In order to detect the effectiveness of wa...
The Danjiangkou Reservoir is the water source of the middle route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project, encompassing the Dan Reservoir and Han Reservoir. However, little is known about the ecological functions of this important eco...
The main canal of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has the risk of excess head loss in crossing water-conveyance structures, but the assessment of this risk faces difficulties such as the lack of sufficient monitoring po...
Water quality forecast is a critical part of water security management. Spatiotemporal and multifactorial variations make water quality very complex and changeable. In this article, a novel model, which was based on back propagation neural network th...
The Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is a critical infrastructure that ensures optimal water resource distribution across river basins and safeguards the livelihood of people in China. This study investigated its effects on...
In the context of global climate change and the water-carbon peak target, improving water security in arid regions is a persistent challenge in global water resources management. Water diversion projects can serve as an important measure to effective...
Concrete cracks pose significant threats to concrete structures, causing immediate strength loss and leading to gradual erosion that compromises structural integrity. Therefore, accurate and automatic detection and classification of concrete cracks,...
Long-distance water transfer is a critical engineering measure to rectify disparities in water resource distribution across regions. The effective operation and safety of such projects are paramount to their success, as localized issues can have casc...
With the increase in energy demand, environmental issues such as carbon emissions are becoming more and more prominent. China will scale its intended nationally determined contributions by adopting more vigorous policies and measures. China aims to h...
The eastern Beijing plain has been suffering severe subsidence for the last decades, mainly associated with the long-term excessive extraction of groundwater resource. Since the end of 2014, the annual water supply in Beijing plain has reached severa...
Inter-basin water transfer projects are widely used in water-stressed areas. North China is facing severe imbalance between water demand and water supply. The South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) Project was built to transfer water from the Yangtze...
The quantitative estimation of non-point source (NPS) pollution provides the scientific basis for sustainability in ecologically sensitive regions. This study combined the export coefficient model and Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation to estimate...
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) is a megaproject which has been constructed to alleviate imbalanced water resource distribution between northern and southern China. It encompasses three routes distributed in the east, central, and...
The quantitative inversion of the concentrations of water quality parameters could clarify the temporal and spatial distribution characteristic, migration, and conversion of water quality parameters. This study took the Danjiangkou Reservoir as the r...
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