Exploitation and Utilization of Water Resources and Sustainable Development in the Irrigation Area of the Lower Yellow River

The water problem in the irrigation area of the lower Yellow River becomes more and more serious with the strained supply - demand relations on water resources. At present, water resources issue causes a series of profound problems, such as irrigation areas decreasing with years. Based on analyses of the current water resources situation and a series of problem about water resources utilization in the irrigation districts of the lower Yellow River, the countermeasures for sustainable development are put forward in the following aspects, improving infrastructure construction of the irrigation districts, integrating water resources management for the irrigation districts, strengthening water saving advertisements, developing water saving agriculture, establishing and impooving water commodity market and so on.