新疆高质量发展的水资源潜力挖掘分析

doi:10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2026.308

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Water scarcity is a major natural constraint on high-quality socioeconomic development and ecological security in Xinjiang. Over the past half century, water conservancy development has advanced rapidly and effectively supported stable and sustainable socioeconomic development in the region. However, several critical challenges remain. For example, agricultural water-use efficiency still requires substantial improvement, indicating considerable water-saving potential. Currently, only ~53.34% of the irrigation area in Xinjiang has adopted high-efficiency water-saving irrigation technologies, while the proportion in southern Xinjiang is only 41.73%. Water storage infrastructure remains insufficient, and reservoir projects control only 20.6% of total water resources. In addition, the potential for water-resource augmentation remains insufficiently explored. The utilization of unconventional water resources and the development of new water resources remain limited. The conversion rate of atmospheric cloud water into precipitation is only 11.3%, and the utilization of floodwater and brackish/saline groundwater is underexplored. To address these challenges, this study proposes several measures. These include strengthening basic research on efficient water-resource utilization and substantially improving water-use efficiency; vigorously developing high-water-efficiency agriculture and implementing “storing water through technology”; promoting autumn and winter irrigation of farmland and “storing water underground”; integrating wind and solar energy into the agricultural industrial chain and implementing “supplementing water with energy”; accelerating the construction of major water conservancy projects and water network systems to enhance water-resource security under climate change; strengthening research and development of technologies for exploiting unconventional water resources to comprehensively expand water-resource availability; and promoting the integrated use of surface water and groundwater to achieve coordinated economic development and ecological security.

Key words: water resources potential, saline groundwater, floodwater resource utilization, atmospheric cloud water resources, Xinjiang

CHEN Yaning, ZHU Chenggang, LI Zhi, FANG Gonghuan. Unlocking the potential of water resources for high-quality development in Xinjiang[J].Arid Land Geography, 2026, 49(6): 1101-1107.

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