Application Design of Water-Consumption-Based Water Accounting for Water Resource Management in Hebei Plain, China

Authors: Fengguang Lyu, Hongbo Zhang, Chiheng Dang

Abstract:

The significance of water resource management has grown in response to the growing concerns of worldwide water shortages and water environmental degradation, necessitating more scientific theory as well as more advanced management practices. Most water resource management methods still focus on water management and use traditional water quantity evaluation indicators to analyze water resources, which cannot be combined with modern water resource management methods and are of little significance for realizing regional efficient water saving, responding to the construction of a water rights market, and improving the level of fine water resources management. Therefore, this paper proposes a management system that blends accounting management with the water cycle process and the creation of the water rights market. This water accounting system for water consumption management is built by designing a regional target allocation method, a factor transformation system, and an account setting method for water consumption management, as well as incorporating economic analysis and auditing indexes into the water resources management process, and the application is carried out using typical cities in the Hebei Plain as examples. According to the findings, the system successfully increases water consumption management and control, and it can fulfill the regional management goal of water conservation on both sides (water usage side and water consumption side). Regional water consumption is managed by more appropriate goal allocation, accurate factor accounting, scientific analytical methods, and reasonable management strategies, and the water accounting system proposed is more suitable for the development needs of building a water-saving society.

Keywords: Water resource management, water consumption, water accounting, water rights.

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