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The security of water resources is of great importance to long-term sustainability. In order to better ensure the security of water resources, a significant link is to conduct water resources security evaluation, which should be considered from many perspectives as it involves natural reserves, social production, the efficiency of use, and environmental protection. In this paper, a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process sort (AHPSort) II-entropy weight (EW) method for regional water resources security evaluation is proposed based on the security of visible water and virtual water. Firstly, this paper takes into account the criterion of efficiency of water use in addition to two other criteria of quantity of water resources, pressure on water resources to establish a comprehensive water resources security evaluation system. Secondly, a combination method of hesitant fuzzy language judgment and entropy weight is employed to obtain the weight of each indicator. Thirdly, AHPSort II is used to classify the security levels of the evaluated regions, in which the security levels of regional water resources are divided into five levels. Furthermore, a case study on the cities of Hubei province, China, is conducted to show the applicability of the proposed method, the effectiveness, and reliability of the method are then verified by being compared with a subjective method and an objective method as well as sensitivity analysis. Finally, according to the comprehensive evaluation results, specific management suggestions for improving the water resources security in the case are put forward.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 71801177), the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Ministry of Education of China (grant number 18YJC630163), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (grant number WUT: 2020VI006).
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Du, Y., Tu, Y., Li, Z. et al. Regional water resources security grading evaluation considering both visible and virtual water: a case study on Hubei province, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 25824–25847 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-17506-2
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