Research on groundwater resources’ distributing properties, developing potential and its utilizing countermeasures in Yellow River,Shanxi Province

Groundwater resources problem has been one of the important “bottleneck” factors to obstacle the economical development in Yellow River,Shanxi Province. In order to fulfill the goal of the sustainable development based on water resources sustainable development, this paper divided the study area into six sub-systems according to the theory of groundwater system firstly; Then the quantity of groundwater natural resources and exploitable resources in each sub-system was calculated by the methods of discharge method and water balance method, etc. The distribution properties of groundwater resources were analyzed. This paper took 1998 as the actual assessing year, and assessed the developing potential of groundwater resources in each sub-system; According to the developing tendency of economy in research region, this paper predicted the water demand in 2010 and 2030 and carried out the balance analysis of water resources; Finally, the countermeasures for water resources’ sustainable development were put forward. It is shown that different development patterns should be adopted according to the local conditions, such as, measures for finding new water resources and water saving should be carried out positively, and innovations of water resources managing mechanism, investment system and water price policy should be promoted.