Water Scarcity and Possible Solutions in Northern China Plain

Water Scarcity and Possible Solutions in Northern China Plain

Article de Haocheng Yang (MS EnvIM 2023-24) Introduction Over the past 50 years, China has been through a remarkable economic expansion along with population growth from 0.6 billion to 1.4 billion. Such a dramatic increase has brought tremendous pressure on agriculture and food supply. As Lester Brown pointed out, China has to feed over 20% of the world population with less than 10% of the world’s farmland, and thus has