Water conflicts in Hetian District, Xinjiang, during the Republic of China period

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• 作者：Shen Yuling ; Haakon Lein ; Xi Chen
• 刊名：Water History
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：2
• 页码：77-94
• 全文大小：737 KB
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Environment
  Hydrogeology
  Civil Engineering
  Humanities
  Waste Water Technology, Water Pollution Control, Water Management and Aquatic Pollution
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1877-7244
• 卷排序：8

文摘

We examine Xie and Yang’s edited volume (published in 2011) titled Hetian diqu minguo shiqi luzhou nongye yu shengtai huanjing dangan xuanji (selected archives compilation of oases agriculture and ecological environment in Hetian District in the Republic of China period), which is a compilation of government documents produced between 1937 and 1949 in the Hetian District, in Xinjiang, China. Drawing on information in the documents, we discuss the water regulations and various types of water conflicts occurring at local level, and highlight the main problems of water management in irrigation agriculture in the dryland areas of the district. Under the strict government policy of opening up wasteland to increase the amount of cultivatable land, regulations for water distribution at local level were either neglected, which was most often the case, or they were revised. In disregarding land-rich but water-scarce situations, the state politics on land management held definitive power over locally administered water-distribution regulations. Water conflicts occurred due to changes in both the amount of land available for irrigation agriculture and the changing water regulations. Thus, the policy of opening up wasteland was the main reason for the water conflicts that occurred in Hetian District, during the Republic of China period.KeywordsLand managementWastelandWater conflictWater managementWater regulationXinjiang