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Korea's Clearwater Management Overview of Korean Water Resources

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      Clean water is a valuable global resource, particularly in hotter countries. Water is required by the human body for a variety of functions, including cell survival and  temperature regulation. A normal person can usually survive for three days without water.

     However, certain factors, such as how much water a person's body requires and how it uses water, can have an impact. Clearwater management Korea believes that an individual's environmental conditions influence how much water their body consumes. One who lives in a hot climate sweats, losing more water, whereas another who lives in a climate-controlled environment does not sweat because the body does not consume much water.

   South Korea's climate is distinguished by a cold, relatively dry winter and a hot, humid summer. Except along the southern coast, the coldest average monthly temperatures in winter are below freezing.

 

Integrated Water Resource Management

     The government's mission, according to Clearwater Management Korea, is to protect clean water in lakes and rivers throughout the country while also ensuring a safe and stable water supply. In 2018, Korea restructured its national water management system, which had been fragmented among ministries, into a unified structure with the Ministry of Environment as the sole authority.

   The ministry's reform goal is to increase administrative efficiency in water management in order to ensure equitable, sustainable, and cost-effective use of the country's fixed water resources. Korea will develop a National Water Management Plan every ten years, according to the new Water Management Framework Act, defining policy goals and specific measures on comprehensive water issues such as water industry, water resources, water quality, disasters, and conflicts.

Disaster Avoidance 

     Korea is experiencing increasingly unpredictable, concentrated, and intense rainfall patterns as a result of climate change. The country aspires to optimise the national system for rescuing people from water-related disasters by utilising advanced information networks and technologies.For example, the Flood Control Offices in the four major rivers produce forecasts, collect meteorological and hydro information, analyse flood risks, and issue real-time flood warnings nationwide from 60 points.

 

Conflict resolution

     The critical concerns of Korea's water policies have been the downstream and upstream reaches between rural and urban areas. The country needed to develop policy instruments to address the inequity, such as water usage charges collected from downstream tap water users and disbursed to improve water quality and upstream community welfare.

 

Water Supply

After decades of servicing networks and expanding waterworks facilities, 99.1% of the total population can now efficiently access Korean water supply services. However, they must address the urban-rural divide.Korea is now focusing its expansion and investment in water supply services on vulnerable areas and rural villages. There will eventually be enough water to supply the entire country.

 

Conclusion

      Korea developed the first National Water Management Plan in 2020, and the country anticipates greater water progress in the coming years thanks to Clearwater Management Korea.Korea's smart water moves will significantly improve drinking water service provision in major cities. Eventually, no municipality or province will be deprived of water in the event of a disaster.


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