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This paper deals mainly with the water resources of China’s lakes scattered over five drainage basins with a total area of 71,787 km2 and a total storage capacity of 7,088 million m3, the fresh water capacity of which amounts to about 2,261 million m3, varying from year to year or even within a year. Attention should be paid to the reasonable utilization of water resources and the problems that have already emerged should be carefully and skillfully handled.
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Hongdao, W. The water resources of lakes in China. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 5, 263–280 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02843990
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02843990