Water Supply (Sep 2023)

Ecosystem governance of rural water ecosystem services under sustainable utilization

  • Shujie Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2023.230
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 9
pp. 3899 – 3911

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Water resources not only threaten the physical health of rural residents but also affect their drinking water needs, causing certain damage to the rural water ecosystem services (WES) and threatening the coordinated development of the natural ecological environment. In response to issues such as outdated personnel awareness, severe WES waste, and low resource utilization in current WES governance, this article optimized and monitored relevant governance methods for the rural WES environment to improve the sustainable utilization of WES. This article analyzed the main types of WES and studied the monitoring and governance methods of WES governance. This article used the projection pursuit model to evaluate the governance methods of WES comprehensively and proposed corresponding strategies for optimal utilization to improve the utilization rate of WES. The WES utilization rate and rural sewage treatment capacity after optimization measures were higher than those before optimization measures. The utilization rate of WES after the optimization strategy was 15.4% higher than before, and the rural pollution treatment capacity was 17.8% higher than before the optimization strategy. Improving investment in water pollution technology and environmental infrastructure in rural areas is important and positive in improving rural WES governance and sustainable utilization. HIGHLIGHTS WES environmental governance methods in rural areas to improve the sustainable use of WES are monitored and optimized.; This paper analyzes the main types of WES.; The monitoring methods and governance methods of WES governance are studied.; In this paper, the projection pursuit model was used to comprehensively evaluate WES governance methods.; Corresponding optimal utilization strategies were proposed to improve the utilization of WES.;

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