Comprehensive Roadmap to 2050 for Water Science & Technology Development

Abstract

China’s water issue featured by water resource shortage, water pollution expansion, water ecology degradation, water disaster worsening, and outdated water management will not only be there for a long period of time but also be increasingly severe. Water issues are of obvious uncertainty due to the global environmental change, constituting a great challenge and serious threat to China’s socio-economic sustainable development. In the water management regime, the issues of departmental segmentation and trans-boundary water issue need to be addressed urgently. Therefore, it is very urgent and significant to conduct the study of the “Roadmap to 2050 for Water Science & Technology Development” in accordance with the major needs of state and in view of the science and technology frontier, that will serve for scientific and technological support and strategic consultation in addressing China’s water issues in future.