Abstract
The sustainable utilization of the water resources has become an important national agendum in Korea. The great temporal and spatial variations of precipitation and stream flow cause frequent water shortage and floods. The water quality of rivers and lakes has been degraded significantly despite of the continuing investment for water quality improvement. Rapidly increasing water use has placed serious problems to reliable water supply, since the one-third of stream flow is now diverted for agricultural, domestic, and industrial uses. A national survey reported that 1.8 million m of water will be short to meet the demands by 2011. Additional water resources have to be developed and the water demand controls and efficient water use need to be more extensively exercised. The basin-wide integrated flood controls are also important to the sustainable development. The concept of sustainability has been incorporated to the on-going efforts to the water related issues and policies.
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