Long-term over-exploitation of groundwater in Shijiazhuang, Hebei and other groundwater over-exploitation of 7 great funnel area | | Hebei _barcode news

China News Agency, Shijiazhuang, December 9 (Xinhua Chen Lin) the surrounding Beijing, Hebei province, severe water shortages in recent years, due to long-term over-exploitation of groundwater is formed by 7 large underground funnel area, causing land subsidence, seawater intrusion, subsidence of ground fissure hazards such problems. And implementation of the project of water diversion from water shortage still exists.

9th Hebei provincial government's information office held a press conference, party members, Deputy Director of the Hebei provincial water resources department Zhang Tielong was informed of the above information.

According to official data, serious shortage of water resources in Hebei province, average 20.5 billion cu m of water resources in the province. 307 cubic meters of water per capita, one-seventh per cent of the national average, well below the internationally recognized standards of 500 cubic meters of water.

With the economic and social development, increasing water demand, Hebei annual total water use from the early 50 's about 4 billion cubic meters, increasing to about 20 billion cubic meters over the past decade. Currently the province's average annual available only 15 billion cubic meters of water resources, chipped about 5 billion cubic meters, on the entry by an annual 10 billion cubic meters of water dropped to 2.7 billion cubic meters, representing a 73%. If taking into account the ecological use of water, and annual water shortage of more than 10 billion cubic meters.

Zhang Tielong said, according to the forecast, taking into account the various water-saving measures and to implement the most strict water resource management under the premise, Hebei province's total water demand of about 24 billion cubic meters by 2030, and implementation, of the Middle East route project of Yellow River diversion water take advantage of gaps still has about 1 billion cubic meters. "Water shortage is serious condition in the long term, Hebei. ”

According to Zhang Tielong introduced in Hebei province with 5.65 million rural people still not fundamentally solve the drinking water safety problem, an annual average of 500,000 people temporary drinking water due to drought problems. "Due to severe water shortage, and had to depend on overexploitation of groundwater to sustain economic and social development, triggered a series of ecological, economic and social problems. ”

According to informed, Hebei long-term large Super mining groundwater, annual Super mining volume near 5 billion cubic meters, plain Super mining district area reached 67,000 square kilometers, Super mining volume and Super mining district area are for national of one-third, formed has 7 a big of groundwater funnel district (Gao Li clear, and suning, and Shijiazhuang, and Ning Bailong, and hengshui, and nangong, and Cangzhou), has raised ground settlement, and seawater intrusion, and Sinkholes astride, geological disaster problem. Rivers dried up, shrinking wetlands, wetland area is more than 70% less than the 50 's of the last century.

Zhang Tielong says will continue in the future to strengthen water-saving ideas, strengthening water saving management, implementation of water conservation project, improving the water-saving legislation. (End)

(Original title: long-term over-exploitation of groundwater form 7 large funnel of Hebei district)

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