Addressing China's Water Scarcity addresses the emerging water
crisis and the need for China to reform and strengthen its water
resource management framework. It covers key issues including
water governance, water rights, water pricing and affordability,
watershed ecological compensation, water pollution control, and
emergency prevention, and it identifies the measures needed to
effectively move forward in these areas. In line with the broad
strategy of developing a market economy, the book concludes that
the focus of the reform needs to be on clarifying the role of and
relationships among the government, markets, and society;
improving the efficiency and effectiveness of water management
institutions; strengthening the compliance and enforcement of
water pollution control; and fully embracing and using marketbased instruments as much as possible.