Drain of the Yellow River at Shandong Section: Causes and Countermeasures

• 来源期刊: 中国减灾（英文版）
• 学科: 地球科学
• 关键词: drain of the Yellow River ecological balance river course evolution water resource planning
• 年，卷（期）: 2001,（2）
• 页码范围: 60-64
• 页数: 5页
• 分类号: X4
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The lower reaches of the Yellow River is in the danger of changing course, as has been indicated by the annually increasing prolong and advance of its drain season and the annually increasing extension of its drain section. The impacts of this tendency have been partially shown by the tremendous economic loss and serious damage to the ecological balance. This paper makes an analysis of the causes of the drain of the Yellow River, its harmful impacts, and our inadequacy of knowledge. It also proposes some solutions to this problem for discussion.