Demand management - To ensure sustainable development of water resources in Changjiang River basin

In recent time, more pressures were put on the water resources management due to shortage of fresh water resources globally, water pollution, the deterioration of water quality, increasing of cost for developing new water source, as well as population growth and water demand growth. It is obvious that supply-oriented management is not the only way to solve these problems. Water demand management is a new trend for water resources management in recent world. To ensure sustainable development of water resources in Changjiang River Basin, demand management has already been put into practice. The demand management measures in terms of legal, economic and technical instruments, which was put into practice in Changjiang River Basin, were firstly described in this paper, and suggestions for water demand management are given based on the analyzing of existing the problems in the implementing those measures.