Analysis of Influencing Factors of Water Consumption in Irrigation District of the Lower Yellow River

摘要

Sixteen mutually independent indexes were selected from 23 irrigation districts of the lower reaches of the Yellow River (IDLRYR). By principal component analysis, the paper indicated that two principal components about IDLRYR are water resource consumption situation and local social-economic condition. Meanwhile the path analysis result showed that agricultural irrigation water consumption and agricultural total output value were the main influencing factors on gross water consumption.