Improving the Water Quality Monitoring System in the Yangtze River Basin—Legal Suggestions to the Implementation of the Yangtze River Protection Law

Qiu Qiu, Liping Dai, Helena F. M. W. Van Rijswick and Gang Tu
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Qiu Qiu: Hubei Water Affairs Research Center, School of Law, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan 430205, China
Liping Dai: Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law, Utrecht University, 3584BH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Helena F. M. W. Van Rijswick: Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law, Utrecht University, 3584BH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Gang Tu: Hubei Water Affairs Research Center, School of Law, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan 430205, China

Laws, 2021, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: The Yangtze River Basin is the largest river basin in China and has the most complex trans-boundary problems. The water quality monitoring system of the provincial boundary sections in the basin is the typical go-to system to show the interaction between administrative regions and basins. In this article, we discuss the water quality monitoring system in the basin from a legal perspective, explore the achievements and deficiencies of the system, and identify the main elements that constrain the effective operation of the system in the basin, including the fragmented competencies of monitoring institutions, the different monitoring techniques, the overlapping monitoring contents and scopes, the different data releasing channels, and the different applications of the data. We provide legislative suggestions to implement the newly enacted Yangtze River Protection Law and valuable lessons for the design of monitoring systems in other countries or (trans-boundary) basins that face a similar situation.

Keywords: water quality monitoring; provincial boundary sections; Yangtze River Protection Law; Yangtze River Basin; monitoring; effectiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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