The objective of this study is to define agricultural water resources security and its connotation and extension in China. The definitions of water security, water resources security, and water environment security were summarized, and their relationship was differentiated and analysed. Based on these, the elements of the conception of agricultural water resources security were hashed and the conception was defined. Agricultural water resources security is the provision of water resource that ensures protection of agriculture against threat, hazards, destruction, and loss. Moreover, the connotation and extension of agricultural water resources security were ascertained. In detail, the connotation of the definition has natural attributes, socioeconomic attributes, and cultural attributes. The extensions of agricultural water resources security include both broad and narrow ones, as well as, food security, agroenvironmental security, agroeconomic security, rural society security, etc. The definition will serve as the frame of reference for developing the research, limiting the frame of the theory, and founding a appraising system for agricultural water resources security..
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