The Chinese water administration department has continuously explored and formulated regulatory market-oriented control policies to alleviate the contradiction between shortage economic social development promote new idea of ‘water-saving first’ control. Among them, implementing a resources tax policy as price means achieved initial success. water-saving effect collection is one important bases...

Recently, the frequent seasonal drought in Southwest China has brought considerable concerns and continuous heated arguments on the "water pump" viewpoint (i.e., the water demand from Hevea spp. and Eucalyptus spp. can be treated as a water pump) once again. However, such viewpoint just focused on water consumption from vegetation transpiration and its ecoenvironment impacts, which had not cons...

Virtual water trade is widely considered as a potential method to solve local shortage and unequal distribution. However, limited research investigated water-saving efficiency inequality of inter-provincial virtual trade. In this study, we sought explore issue within China based on the 2015 input-output data. A multi-regional model modified were used estimate its impact inequality. Our results ...

Plastic mulching with drip irrigation is a new water-saving rice cultivation technology, but little is known on its productivity and water-saving capacity. This study aimed to assess the production potential, performance, and water use efficiency (WUE) of rice under plastic mulching with drip irrigation. Field experiments were conducted over 2 years with two rice cultivars under different culti...

Under surface irrigation, particularly in clay soils cut-off technique is considered as one of the most practical way in saving irrigation water that traditional farmers could be easily implemented. Such farming way is processing through find out the optimum length of irrigation run at which watering should be stopped instead of irrigation till the tail end of the furrows or borders. Such proce...