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MIKE 3: Model tests on the Huangchengji bridge Image 15
The limits of Chinese bureaucracy revealed
themselves here. The vehicle was imported
as air cargo for the above-mentioned handover.
Following the handover, it took the
Water Authority more than one year to officially
import the vehicle through customs
and have it licensed by the police. As is the
case for all trucks (the vehicle was regarded
as a truck), the vehicle was licensed for traffic
purposes but only for use at night! Even
though the problem has now been solved,
the vehicle is only used for special purposes.
Integrated water resource
management in the coastal region
of the province of Shandong
The river catchment of the Huangshuihe
(1,034 km2), Image 11, in the north-east of
the province of Shandong with its 64 km
coastline offers a very good example of
water conflicts which have arisen due to a
rapidly growing population, industry and
agriculture and uncoordinated water management
measures, and which can only be
solved by means of integrated water resources
management (IWRM).
Overuse of the water resources results in
significant water management and agricultural
problems due to salt water intrusion
into the groundwater. The development of
industry and agriculture – the main source
of income for the population – is severely
restricted due to water shortage, and the
contamination has consequences for ecology
and the population’s quality of life. As
part of the BMBF’s IWRM support programme,
the joint project “Sustainable water
resource management in the coastal area
of the Shandong province PR China” was
supported by the Chinese Ministry of Science
and Technology (MOST) and the
BMBF on the basis of a preliminary study
(managed by Prof. W. Geiger, University of
Essen). The project came to an end in December
2010 and was coordinated by DHI-
WASY GmbH. For more information, see
http://www.bmbf.wasserressourcen-management.de/en/304.php.
The goals are as follows:
❙ integration of social, economic and environmental
aspects
Supported projects
The following projects are/were supported
by the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research (BMFB):
❙ Sino-German joint project “New concepts
of rain water management in urban
areas”; subproject 6: “GIS-based
information system and analysis of
ground water development by quantity
and quality”, ref. no.: 02WA 0051
❙ Joint project: “Sustainable water concept
and its use in the 2008 Olympic
Games”; subproject G6: “Integrated
monitoring and information management”;
overall coordination of joint project,
ref. nos.: 02WA0526 and 02WA
1013
❙ Joint project: “Sustainable water resource
management in the coastal area
of the Shandong province PR China”,
subproject C: “Planning method and
monitoring system for sustainable measures”;
overall coordination of joint project,
ref. no.: 02WM092
❙ Joint project: “Guanting-Sustainable
water and agricultural land use in the
Guanting watershed under limited water
resources”; subproject 2: “Water
quantity management”; ref. no.: 02WM
104 (see also http://www.bmbf.wasser
ressourcen-management.de/en/606.
php )
❙ integrated analysis of groundwater and
surface water (quantity and quality)
❙ optimisation of the water supply for the
entire watershed.
The German project partners are Institute
for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin,
Institute of Hydrology, Water Resources
Management and Environmental Engineering
at Ruhr-University Bochum, Regierungsbaumeister
Schlegel GmbH & Co.
KG and Prof. W. Geiger.
The Chinese project partners are the Water
Management Authority of the province of
Shandong, the Water Authority of Longkou,
the Shandong Water Conservancy Research
Institute, Jinan (Prof. Zhang Baoxian, Chinese
project coordinator) as well as Shandong
University and Shandong Normal
University. Scientific coordination is the
responsibility of Prof. W. Geiger, UNESCO
Chair in Sustainable Water Management,
Beijing / Munich.
The project area has two special features: a
reservoir cascade to enrich the ground water
(Image 12) and a subterranean groundwater
dam to prevent salt water intrusion from the
sea.
A DSS designed to help optimise measures
for sustainable water management is being
developed as part of the project. The structure
of the DSS is shown in Image 13.
Particular attention is also being placed on
improved monitoring in the project. In a
previous rough analysis, weak spots were
identified in this regard. They mainly affected
the recording of groundwater levels
and water quality parameters – particularly
of relevance for salt water intrusion into the
groundwater body. Three new measuring
stations have now been planned and constructed
together with the Chinese partners
in accordance with requirements (cf. Image
6). The measuring stations are fitted with a
solar-operated multi-parameter radioprobe,
which continuously measures five parameter
values (including conductivity) and transmits
them daily to a website (developed by
UGT GmbH). The Mobile Monitoring Shuttle
was developed by UGT with Grundwasserforschungszentrum
Dresden e.V. for the
purpose of mobile sampling, and made
available to the Chinese partner (MMS,
developed by NAN UGT). The samples can
thus be taken free of convection and with no
pressure.
A further weakness lies in the insufficient
recording of flow quantities. Of particular
concern is the lack of flow data for the
largest tributary in the project area, the
Huangchengji. In order to remedy the situation,
a measurement system was designed in
consultation with the Chinese partners. This
system is to be installed at the point just
before the tributary flows into the main
river. The high sediment rates, the irregular
waterbed and the heavy fluctuations in flow
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