Revealing Water Stress by the Thermal Power Industry in China Based on a High Spatial Resolution Water Withdrawal and Consumption Inventory

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1642-1652

  Zhang, Chao ^a   Zhong, Lijin ^b   Fu, Xiaotian ^b   Wang, Jiao ^b   Wu, Zhixuan ^c  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b World and China Institute   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CATCHMENTS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

COAL-FIRED POWER GENERATION; DISTRIBUTION OF WATER; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LOWER REACHES OF THE YELLOW RIVERS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; THERMAL POWER GENERATION; WATER EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

COAL; FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER; NATURAL GAS; SEA WATER; WATER;

CATCHMENT; COAL MINING; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY; ENERGY MARKET; POWER PLANT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; THERMAL POWER; WATER STRESS;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CHINA; COAL MINING; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; RIVER BASIN; WATER STRESS; WATER SUPPLY; DEHYDRATION; RIVER;

CHINA; HAI BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR; YANGTZE BASIN; YELLOW RIVER BASIN; ZHEJIANG;

CHINA; COAL; DEHYDRATION; POWER PLANTS; RIVERS; WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84958267863     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05374     Document Type: Article

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