scholarly journals Pricing Strategies for Competitive Water Supply Chains under Different Power Structures: An Application to the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenyi Du ◽  
Yubing Fan ◽  
Lina Yan
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
Pricing Strategies ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Competition Intensity ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
North Water ◽  
Neutral Water

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 consists of a risk-neutral water supplier and a risk-neutral water distributor. We build different decision models for two competitive water resources supply chains, derive the optimal decision strategies for the water supply chain members, and analyze how competition intensity affects these decisions. Analytical results show that when the supplier is the leader, its water wholesale price is always higher than that when the distributor serves as the leader. On the other hand, the retail price and the two supply chains’ channel profits depend on the competition intensity, but are independent of the power structure. To illustrate the proposed models, we apply them to examine the water pricing strategies in the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China. The results showed significant insights into the pricing strategies of water resources in different routes of this massive water diversion project.

Beijing water resources and the south to north water diversion project

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duan Wei
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Demand ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Water Saving ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
The South ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
North Water

Beijing is located in a semiarid region, and water shortage is a common problem in the city. Along with the rapid increase in water demand, due to fast socioeconomic development and an increase in population, a shortage of water resources and a deterioration of the water environment have become obstacles to sustainable socioeconomic development in Beijing. In the long run, sustainable water resources management, water conservation, and completion of the south to north water diversion project will solve the problem. This paper introduces the water resources situation in Beijing; analyzes future water demand; and discusses the actions of water saving, nontraditional water resources exploitation, wetland construction, and water environment protection. The paper also explains the importance of the south to north water diversion project and the general layout of the water supply strategy, water distribution system, and methods to efficiently use the diverted water in Beijing.Key words: water resources, water supply, water saving, water recycling, water diversion.

scholarly journals China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project Empowers Sustainable Water Resources System in the North

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giri R. Kattel ◽  
Wenxiu Shang ◽  
Zhongjing Wang ◽  
John Langford
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Water Resources System ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
North Water

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 generated extensive debates over sustainability of water resources system in the northern drier region, which faces severe water scarcity hindering ecosystems, agriculture, industries and livelihoods. Some arguments extend the views that large infrastructure projects can have negative implications for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem goods and services. However, this study strengthens the opposite view, as such projects would resolve increasing environmental challenges northern China has been facing over many decades due to severe water shortages. The project empowers connectivity among individuals, community, and organizations that the sustainability of goods and services such as energy, irrigation and water supply are perceived, and livelihoods and the standard of peoples’ living is improved. A resilient, robust and adaptive water infrastructure framework can overcome the challenges of water shortages by meeting a long term social, economic and environmental goals for water resources systems in northern China. Such framework can also identify the thresholds of change and the threats associated with environmental sustainability.

scholarly journals Vegetation greening weakened the capacity of water supply to China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 5623-5640
Author(s):  
Jiehao Zhang ◽  
Yulong Zhang ◽  
Ge Sun ◽  
Conghe Song ◽  
Matthew P. Dannenberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Central China ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Water Yield ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Recent Climate ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
North Water ◽  
Annual Water

Abstract. Recent climate change and vegetation greening have important implications for global terrestrial hydrological cycles and other ecosystem functions, raising concerns about the watershed water supply capacity for large water diversion projects. To address this emerging concern, we built a hybrid model based on the Coupled Carbon and Water (CCW) and Water Supply Stress Index (WaSSI) models and conducted a case study on the upper Han River basin (UHRB) in Central China that serves as the water source area to the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP). Significant vegetation greening occurred in the UHRB during 2001–2018, largely driven by the widespread afforestation in the region, with the normalized difference vegetation index increasing at a rate of 0.5±0.1 % yr−1 (p<0.05) but with no significant trends in climate during the same period (albeit with large interannual variability). Annual water yield greatly decreased, and vegetation greening alone induced a significant decrease in water yield of 3.2±1.0 mm yr−1 (p<0.05). Vegetation greening could potentially reduce the annual water supply by 7.3 km3 on average, accounting for 77 % of the intended annual water diversion volume of the SNWDP. Although vegetation greening can bring enormous ecosystem goods and services (e.g., carbon sequestration and water quality improvement), it could aggravate the severity of hydrological drought. Our analysis indicated that vegetation greening in the UHRB reduced about a quarter of water yield on average during drought periods. Given the future warming and drying climate is likely to continue to raise evaporative demand and exert stress on water availability, the potential water yield decline induced by vegetation greening revealed by our study needs to be taken into account in the water resources management over the UHRB while reaping other benefits of forest protection and ecological restoration.

scholarly journals Discussion on construction scheme of aqueduct structure repair and water stop belt replacement in South-to-North Water Diversion project

2021 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 02016
Author(s):  
Kang Jao ◽  
Jian Li ◽  
Jianshen Liu ◽  
Zhiyong Zhou ◽  
Haihua Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Structural Damage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
Water Delivery ◽  
The South ◽  
Construction Scheme ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
North Water

Taking Shahe and Dalang River aqueducts as an example, this paper introduces a movable and reusable waterproof device for aqueduct construction, which is suitable for construction scheme of structure repair and waterstop belt replacement for large-scale water delivery aqueduct of Shahe River and Dalang River in South-to-North Water Diversion Project. It aims to solve structural damage and waterstop belt leakage of the aqueducts of Shahe River and Dalang River in the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, realizing the aqueduct construction with uninterrupted water supply, and structure repair and waterstop belt replacement in the waterless environment separated by watertight device in the aqueduct construction.

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