Studies on the Water Resources Utilization and Management in Tarim Watershed

Based on the survey on water resource exploitation and utilization in Tarim watershed, the experiences on the watershed management are summarized. The main problems in the course of water resource exploitation were demonstrated, such as, water amount run into the main stream was decreased as the reason of opening up wasteland in source stream area and rapid increment for self-utilization; entering water amount in the lower reach was sharply declined as the reason of water overuse in the upper reach of main stream; the infrastructure of water conservancy within the watershed was weak; the overall planning of watershed was absent. The countermeasures for raising water resource use efficiency included the unified water resource management and arrangement for the whole watershed; water right trade-off to achieve "win-win" goal; the integration between water resource conservation and development by technological innovation and engineering construction, and so on.