Welcome to PACE (http://www.chinaenvironment.net/) online forum on the topic of water problems in China. Topics we will discuss include (but are not limited to):

1. Available water resources amount in China; impacts of climate change; uncertainties in resources assessment; temporal and spatial inhomogeneity of resources distribution;
2. Growing water needs for agriculture, industrial and urban sectors; the impacts of economic and population growth and social development; predicting future water needs and its uncertainties;
3. Drying rivers and rapidly decline ground water tables in North China, especially in the North China Plain; Severe water pollution in China;
4. Sustainability of irrigated agriculture; water shortage and poverty; food security and irrigation;
5. Flood control and mitigation
6. Hydraulic engineering solutions for water shortage; social, economic and environmental impacts of engineering solutions;
7. Water saving measures to cop with water shortage; their potential and implementation;
8. Water resource management improvement; water pricing reform;
9. Waste water treatment and pollution remediation;
10. Water and public health effects
11. Urgent research needs

This list is by no means comprehensive or complete. If you have any particular issues like to add to the discussion list, or if you are an expert in a particular sub-topic and would like to lead its discussion, you will be more than welcomed to do so.

Moderators: Li Zheng and Alana Rivera