| China is a country with severely deficient water resource.Its water occupancy per capita is only 1/4 of the world's average.Moreover,there exists an egregious waste of water resource and the water use efficiency is terribly low.In order to solve the problem of water shortage,it is an urgent affair to establish a water-saving society and develop water-saving agriculture by popularizing energetically water-saving techniques and increasing water use efficiency.Therefore,the water price system should be reformed so as to enhance the water-saving consciousness of water users by adopting the economic lever.The following misapprehensions should be avoided in the course of water price reform: one is the misunderstanding that the water supply cost of agriculture is lower than that of industry,so the water price of agriculture is ought to be much lower than that of industry;another is the misunderstanding that agriculture is a weak industry,so there is no space of price rising for agricultural water. |