Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Images -- 1. Introduction Tetsuya Kusuda -- 2. Profile of theYellow River Basin Dawen Yang and Hiroshi Ishidaira -- 2.1. Characteristics of the Nature -- 2.1.1. Morphology -- 2.1.2. Geology -- 2.1.3. Climate -- 2.2. Human Activities -- 2.2.1. Population distribution -- 2.2.2. Land use -- 2.2.3. Urban and rural lives -- 2.2.4. Agriculture -- 2.2.5. Industry -- 2.2.6. Production and economics -- 2.3. Socio-Economic States -- 2.3.1. Strategic situation of theYellow River in history -- 2.3.2. Socio-economic conditions in the basin -- 2.3.3. Policy of development in the basin -- 2.3.4. Administration in the basin -- 2.3.5. Social problems on water in the basin -- References -- 3. Water Resources and Use Dawen Yang, Kyoichi Otsuki, Tetsuo Kobayashi, Daisuke Yasutake, Hiroyuki Cho, Masaharu Kitano, Makito Mori, Tugihiro Watanabe, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Hiroshi Ishidaira and Changrong Yan -- 3.1. Water Resources Availability -- 3.1.1. Precipitation/snow melting -- 3.1.2. Potential evaporation -- 3.1.3. Runoff and river flow -- 3.1.4. Water storage -- 3.1.5. Groundwater resources -- 3.2. Water-Use -- 3.2.1. Forest -- (a) Climate and forest distribution -- (b) Vegetation in arid lands -- (c) Vegetation in semi-arid and semi-humid lands -- 3.2.2. Irrigation -- (a) Irrigation in Qingdongxia District -- (b) Hetao Irrigation District -- (c) Togtoh irrigation area -- 3.2.3. Industrial use -- 3.2.4. Consumption of water in urban areas -- References -- 4. Water Quality and River Ecology Tetsuya Kusuda and Osamu Higashi -- 4.1. Water Quality in theYellow River Basin -- 4.2. Water Quality in theWei River Basin -- 4.2.1. Sources of pollutants -- (a) Land use -- (b) Population and industrial facility distributions -- (c)Water demand distribution -- 4.2.2. Pollutant unit loads and loading rates -- (a) Point sources.

(b) Non-point sources -- 4.3. Water Quality in theWei River -- 4.3.1. Observational results -- 4.4. Simulation with an Integrated Model onWater Quality and Quantity -- 4.4.1. Integrated model of water quantity and quality -- 4.4.2. Computational results -- 4.4.3. Toward future -- 4.5. River Environment in Xi'an -- 4.5.1. Urban areas -- 4.5.2. Effects of reservoirs -- References -- 5. SedimentYield and Transport in the MiddleYellow River Basin Haruyuki Hashimoto, Hiroki Takaoka, Takahito Ueno and Byungdug Jun -- 5.1. SedimentYield -- 5.2. Fluvial Geomorphology -- 5.2.1. Analytical framework -- 5.2.2. Analysis of geographic information and satellite images -- (a) Analysis of topographic maps -- (b) GIS image processing -- 5.2.3. Comparison of the eight tributaries in the middle reach of theYellow River -- 5.3. Field Measurements of Flood Flows -- 5.3.1. Rainfall-runoff relationships -- 5.3.2. Sediment particle size in flood flows and on riverbeds -- 5.3.3. Relationship between discharge and sediment transport rate -- 5.3.4. Flow resistance -- 5.4. Formula for Flow Resistance and Sediment Transport -- 5.5. Comparison among Theoretically Calculated, Experimental and Observed Results -- 5.6. Analysis of Flood and Sediment Runoff -- 5.6.1. Rainfall-runoff analysis -- 5.6.2. Riverbed variation analysis -- References -- 6. Modeling and Simulation onWater in theYellow River Dawen Yang -- 6.1. Hydrological Model and Simulation -- 6.1.1. Introduction -- 6.1.2. Data -- 6.1.3. Description of the hydrological model -- 6.1.4. Model calibration and validation -- 6.2. Analysis ofWater Resources in the Last Half Century -- 6.2.1. Spatial and seasonal distributions of water resources for a long-term mean -- 6.2.2. Decadal variation of water resources -- 6.2.3. Inter-annual variability of water resources.

6.2.4. Reason for the drying-up in the main river along the lower reach over the last 30 years -- References -- 7. Projection of Water Supply and Demand with Economy and Food Supply in theYellow River Basin Hidefumi Imura, Hiroaki Shirakawa and Akio Onishi -- 7.1. Analysis of Current Water-Use Using the Water Resource Supply-Demand Model -- 7.1.1. Overview of the model -- 7.1.2. Structural changes in water resource supply and demand (1997-2000) -- 7.2. Impacts of Economic Growth and Urbanization on Water Resource Supply-Demand Balance -- 7.2.1. Regional economic growth scenarios -- 7.2.2. Water supply-demand gaps in theYellow River basin -- 7.2.3. Analysis by watershed -- 7.3. Impacts of Changes in Food Demand onWater Resources -- 7.4. Toward the Future -- References -- Index.