Making China’s water data accessible, usable and shareable

  • Lin J
  • Bryan B
  • Zhou X
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Abstract

Water data are essential for monitoring, managing, modelling and projecting water resources. Yet despite such data—including water quantity, quality, demand and ecology—being extensively collected in China, it remains difficult to access, use and share them. These challenges have led to poor data quality, duplication of effort and wasting of resources, limiting their utility for supporting decision-making in water resources policy and management. In this Perspective we discuss the current state of China’s water data collection, governance and sharing, the barriers to open-access water data and its impacts, and outline a path to establishing a national water data infrastructure to reform water resource management in China and support global water-data sharing initiatives. This Perspective characterizes the major challenges to open-access water data in China. A potential data management infrastructure to improve the collection, sharing, and use of water data is outlined.

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Lin, J., Bryan, B. A., Zhou, X., Lin, P., Do, H. X., Gao, L., … Yang, Z. (2023). Making China’s water data accessible, usable and shareable. Nature Water, 1(4), 328–335. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00039-y

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