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Modeling domestic water demand in Huaihe River Basin of China under climate change and population dynamics

Environment, Development and Sustainability volume 20, pages 911–924 (2018)Cite this article

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A statistical model has been developed to forecast domestic water demand by considering climate change, population growth, urbanization, lifestyle changes and technological advances. The developed model is used to forecast future domestic water demand in different sub-basins of Huaihe River Basin of China. The study reveals that mean temperature in Huaihe River Basin will increase by 0.7–1.6 °C, population will reach to 230 million, and 61.2% of the basin area will be urbanized by the year 2030, which will cause a sharp increase in domestic water demand. The increase in domestic water demand for 1 °C increase in mean temperature is found to vary between 0.549 × 108 and 5.759 × 108 m3 for different sub-basins of Huaihe River. The forecasted change in domestic water demand is also found to vary widely for different general circulation models (GCMs) used. The GCM BCC-CSM1-1 projected the highest increase in domestic water demand, 168.44 × 108 m3 in 2020, and the GISS-E2-R the lowest, 119.21 × 108 m3. On the other hand, the BNU-ESM projected the highest increase, 196.03 × 108 m3, and the CNRM-CM5 the lowest, 161.05 × 108 m3 in year 2030. Among the different sub-basins, the highest increase in water demand is projected in Middlestream of Huaihe River in the range of 46.9 × 108–65.5 × 108 m3 in 2020, and 61.3 × 108–76.1 × 108 m3 in 2030, which is supposed to cause serious water shortage and an increase in competition among water-using sectors.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51309155, 41330854), National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2010CB951104 and 2010CB951103), Strategic Consulting Projects of Chinese Academy of Engineering (NO:2016-ZD-08-05-02), Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (NO:IWHR-SKL-201515) and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change (Grant No. ARCP2013-25NSY-Shahid) for providing financial support for this research. We are also thankful to anonymous reviewers and editors for their helpful comments and suggestions.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Nanjing, 210029, China

    Xiao-Jun Wang, Jian-Yun Zhang & Xu Zhang

  2. Research Center for Climate Change, Ministry of Water Resources, Nanjing, 210029, China

    Xiao-Jun Wang, Jian-Yun Zhang & Xu Zhang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Xiao-Jun Wang

  4. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

    Shamsuddin Shahid

  5. Department of Planning and Programming, Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, 100053, China

    Wei Xie

  6. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Chao-Yang Du

  7. Huaihe River Water Resources Commission, Bengbu, 233001, China

    Xiao-Chuan Shang

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Wang, XJ., Zhang, JY., Shahid, S. et al. Modeling domestic water demand in Huaihe River Basin of China under climate change and population dynamics. Environ Dev Sustain 20, 911–924 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-017-9919-7

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  • Water demand forecast
  • Climate change
  • Domestic water use
  • Water resources management
  • Huaihe River Basin