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City level water withdrawal and scarcity accounts of China
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Scientific Data, Volume 11, issue 1
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In the context of China’s freshwater crisis high-resolution data are critical for sustainable water management and economic growth. Yet there is a dearth of data on water withdrawal and scarcity regardless of whether total or subsector amount, for prefectural cities. In administrative and territorial scope, we accounted for water withdrawal of all 63 economic-socio-environmental sectors for all 343 prefectural cities in China, based on a general framework and 2015 data. Spatial and economic-sector resolution is improved compared with previous studies by partitioning general sectors into industrial and agricultural sub-sectors. Construction of these datasets was based on selection of 16 driving forces. We connected a size indicator with corresponding water-withdrawal efficiency. We further accounted for total blue-water withdrawal and quantitative water scarcity status. Then we compared different scopes and methods of official accounts and statistics from various water datasets. These disaggregated and complete data could be used in input-output models for municipal design and governmental planning to help gain in-depth insights into subsector water-saving priorities from local economic activities.
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Zhang, Z, Shan, Y, Zhao, D, Tillotson, M R, Cai, B, Li, X, Zheng, H, Zhao, C, Guan, D, Liu, J & Hao, Y 2024, 'City level water withdrawal and scarcity accounts of China', Scientific Data, vol. 11, no. 1, 449. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03115-4