LIU Miao 1, ZHANG Rui 2, QIN Da-yong 1 (1. State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, IWHR, Beijing 100038, China, 2. Shanxi Institute of Water Resources, Taiyuan 030000, China)

Abstract: Water function area is a region with certain functions, which was determined based on back ground, development status and demand characteristics of water resource. The traditional method of water function area division regards river corridor as management objective and does not describe the influence of slope system on river sufficiently. Based on the reason above, the traditional way of dividing water function area has negative influence on water resource management. In this paper, by taking Shanxi Province as an example, the applicability and feasibility of “slope-river” integrated water function zoning are discussed. With the water function zone is spatially expanded. By comparing compositional structure of function type in the conventional water function zoning, the results of “slope-river” integrated water function zoning prove to be reasonable. The area affiliation matrix of the water function zone types in different counties of Shanxi Province is proposed. The spatial distribution of current water quality and its protection targets are also put forward.

Key words: water function area, spatial distribution, Shanxi Province, water resource protection

Published in: Journal of China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Vol. 10 No. 3, 2012)