Water, in particular water scarcity, is the fulcrum of China's dilemma in pursuing
industrialization, income growth, modernization, and national food security. The Haihe River
Basin (HRB) is an extremely water stressed hydrological system, which encompasses the
two megacities of Beijing and Tianjin, and is experiencing the detrimental impacts of the
recent unprecedented economic growth on its scarce water resources. We applied an
integrated multi-regional input–output (MRIO) hydro-economic model combined with the …