A Close Look at Water Scarcity

DOI

10.2991/emcs-17.2017.166How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Water scarcity; Macro-model; Micro-model; Water shortage

Abstract

Water shortage problem is increasingly becoming the focus of great concern to everyone in the world.First, we develop two models-Macroscopic Model and Microscopic Model to measure the ability of a region to provide clean water. We calculate the amount of water supply and demand approximately, and we adopt a Macro-Model to measure the water provision ability in a large region. While the Micro-Model concentrates on the dynamic nature of the factors. Then we use the unified criteria and determine the weighs via the AHP, working out an indicator to reflect the ability to provide clean water in a certain region. Second, we pick Beijing for further study. We conclude that the water is heavily overloaded in Beijing, mainly caused by the large population. Finally, our intervention plan is to build a new dam in Beijing. Applying the goal programming, we determine the specific way to build this dam. Our primary goal is to mitigate water scarcity in Beijing, namely improve water availability. Meanwhile, our minor aim is to minimize the investment of this dam projection. Additionally, we analyze the influence on the surrounding areas and the entire water ecosystem.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jinyi Shen
PY  - 2017/03
DA  - 2017/03
TI  - A Close Look at Water Scarcity
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 7th International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society (EMCS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 873
EP  - 877
SN  - 2352-538X
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DO  - 10.2991/emcs-17.2017.166
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