Fig 1.
Map at the lower-left corner is location of the delta area in the whole Pearl River Basin. Above is where the Pearl River Basin is allocated in China.
Fig 2.
Water resource system of the PRD and the study boundary of the present paper.
All the volume numbers are in units of km3 (data source: Guangdong Water Resource Bulletin).
Table 1.
Harmonized Sectorial Water Use in 108 m3 (Original data can be found in Table A(a) in S4 Appendix).
Table 2.
Harmonized Sectorial Water Use Intensity (Original data can be found in Table B(a) in S4 Appendix).
Table 3.
Monthly Crop Factors for Paddy Rice in the PRD Area.
Table 4.
Crop factors for other cereals and cash crops.
Table 5.
Crop factors for fruits, vegetables and green fodder.
Fig 3.
Sectorial water use of the PRD.
Absolute (bars, left axis) and relative (lines, right axis) sectorial water use of agriculture, industry and domestic water use of the PRD reported by Guangdong Water Resource Bulletin.
Fig 4.
Water use intensity in the PRD.
Values shown are in the units of litres/person-day for DOMU and DOMR, m3/104 Yuan IVA for IND, m3/ha for IRR, and m3/person-year for the Total water use intensity (Total) respectively.
Fig 5.
Sectorial water use comparison between calculated results and WB reported data.
Fig 6.
Comparison of domestic and manufacturing water use intensity between calculated results and WB reported data.
Table 6.
Socio-economic Development in the PRD.
Fig 7.
Structural water use intensity in the domestic sector in the PRD.
Comparison between calculated results and WB reported data.
Fig 8.
Sectorial water use of different cities in the PRD.
Size of the pie chart indicates the average total water use level of the city over the study period. Areas of green, red, dark grey and light grey represent the proportion of agriculture, industry, urban domestic and rural domestic water uses respectively.
Table 7.
City differentiation of domestic water use parameters.
Table 8.
Parameter fitting for the manufacturing water use calculation.
Fig 9.
Internal differentiation of water use in the manufacturing sector in the PRD.
Fig. 9A is the internal differentiation of the manufacturing water use intensity. Fig. 9B is the internal differentiation of absolute volume of manufacturing water use.