{"id":1169,"date":"2012-01-03T16:31:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T11:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2012-01-03T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T11:56:17","slug":"facts-and-figures-about-the-han-river-basin-republic-of-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Facts and figures about the Han River Basin (Republic of Korea)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iver-basins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1172 colorbox-1169\" title=\"iver-basins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iver-basins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iver-basins.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iver-basins-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The capital, Seoul, one of the world&#8217;s largest cities, is located in the Han River basin. The population of the basin, now 41% of the national total, almost tripled between 1966 and 2005, from about 7 million to almost 20 million. Nevertheless, urban areas account for just 1% of the basin. Forests make up 78%, cultivated areas 16%, and grasslands and water bodies 5%. The Han River basin is considered the heart of South Korea.<\/li>\n<li>Annual renewable water resources in the Han River basin are estimated at 16 billion m3. As of 2003, 8.5 billion m3 of this amount was actually in use.<\/li>\n<li>Owing to the high rate of urbanization, the household sector \u2013 which accounts for 2.8 billion m3 (33% of overall consumption) \u2013 is the number one source of consumption, followed by agriculture (1.6 billion m3 or 19%) and industry (0.8 billion m3 or 9%). The remaining 3.3 billion m3 is allocated for environmental purposes.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Agricultural water use in the Han River basin accounts for about 10% of water use for agriculture in the Republic of Korea. Rice fields alone consume 70% of the total.<\/li>\n<li>There are 724 reservoirs, primarily serving the agricultural water requirements in the basin. Of these, 127 meet the international standards for large dams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The section &#8220;Did You Know\u2026?&#8221; is taken from the 3rd World Water Development Report &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/water\/wwap\/wwdr\/wwdr3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Water in a Changing World<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/water\/news\/newsletter\/257.shtml#know\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.unesco.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capital, Seoul, one of the world&#8217;s largest cities, is located in the Han River basin. The population of the basin, now 41% of the national total, almost tripled between 1966 and 2005, from about 7 million to almost 20 million. Nevertheless, urban areas account for just 1% of the basin. Forests make up 78%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}