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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Performance Evaluation of Water
Management in the Yellow River Basin
1
School of Public Administration, Shandong Technology and Business University, Yantai 264000, China
2
Dongying Luxing Water affairs limited company, Dongying 257000, China
3
Dongying Research Institute for Oceanography Development, Dongying 257000, China
4
Shandong Land Group digital technology limited company, Jinnan 250014, China
Submission date: 2024-09-07
Final revision date: 2024-11-25
Acceptance date: 2024-12-16
Online publication date: 2025-02-11
Publication date: 2026-01-30
Corresponding author
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2026;35(1):1415-1426
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ABSTRACT
On the basis of the “combined management of Three Waters”, this paper constructs a water
management performance evaluation system that includes three dimensions: the utilization of water
resources, water environment management, and the rehabilitation of water ecosystems. It evaluates
the water management performance of the Yellow River Basin from 2006 to 2022 using entropy weight
TOPSIS. This includes characterizing the dynamic evolution of water management performance
in the Yellow River Basin with the help of kernel density curves, exploring the differences in water
management performance between the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the Yellow River Basin with
the help of the Tyrell’s index, and assessing the development trend of the Yellow River Basin using
the GM (1,1) prediction model. The results show that the overall water management performance
of the Yellow River Basin shows a decreasing trend and then a stable upward trend, and the dimension
of the utilization of water resources of the Yellow River Basin shows a spatial pattern of strong
in the east and weak in the west. In contrast, the dimension of water environment management shows
a spatial pattern that is strong in the west and weak in the east. The kernel density curve shows
that the gap between the water management performance of the provinces in the basin continues
to increase over time and tends to stabilize. According to the model, the performance of water
management in the Yellow River Basin will continue to improve steadily in the coming years.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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