Study on the Impact of Human Activities on Water Resources Assessment Process in the Yalong River Basin

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10.2991/978-94-6463-728-1_66How to use a DOI?

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Water Resources Assessment; Human Activities; Wetspa

Abstract

As human activities intensify the development and utilization of water resources, significant changes occur in the hydrological cycle and underlying surface conditions of the basin, leading to potential errors in traditional water resources assessment methods. Based on the distributed hydrological model Wetspa, this study analyzes the basic characteristics and main components of the social water cycle process. It considers the influence of human water consumption and reservoir storage variability on the runoff simulation process. A coupled natural-social water cycle model is constructed for the Yalong River Basin to evaluate the quantity of water resources. By adding reservoir storage variability and water consumption to the model and analyzing the changes in water yield, the study aims to demonstrate the impact of neglecting reservoir regulation and the social water cycle process on water resources assessment when using distributed hydrological models. The results indicate that neglecting reservoir regulation and the social water cycle process in water resources assessment using distributed hydrological models leads to an overall decrease in water yield, with a more pronounced decrease in groundwater yield.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruifang Yuan
AU  - Zhendong Fan
AU  - Yijian Cai
AU  - Junliang Shen
AU  - Yunxiang Lan
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/05/19
TI  - Study on the Impact of Human Activities on Water Resources Assessment Process in the Yalong River Basin
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Green Building, Civil Engineering and Smart City (GBCESC 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 707
EP  - 718
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-728-1_66
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-728-1_66
ID  - Yuan2025
ER  -