Table 1 Water allocation scheme for the Yellow River Basin Comprehensive Planning unit: billion m3.

From: Simulation of population size and economic scale supportable by the Yellow River’s available freshwater in 2030 under multiple scenarios

Region

Qinghai

Sichuan

Gansu

Ningxia

Inner Mongolia

Shaanxi

Shanxi

Henan

Shandong

Total

Water use

1.816

0.37

4.037

5.262

6.988

5.296

4.222

5.169

6.658

39.845