中文摘要：

水资源承载力是关于人口、水资源、生态环境和社会经济多方面的内部特征和相互关系的综合指标。目前,由于水资源短缺和水环境恶化等问题日益突出,引起了众多学者对水资源承载力的关注。虽然近10年多来对水资源承载力的研究进展较快,并取得了不少成果,但由于起步较晚仍没有形成公认的理论和方法体系。为此,介绍了水资源承载力研究的进展,提出了今后关于水资源承载力的研究不但要加强理论基础研究,更应考虑人为造成的水环境污染及借鉴最新的理论和科技手段。

英文摘要：

Water resources carrying capacity is about population, water resources, the ecological environment and many of the socio-economic characteristics and the relationship between the internal composite indexes. At present, owing to increasingly prominent problems such as the shortage of water resources and the degradation of water environment attracted the attention of many scholars of water resources carrying capacity. Although in the past, 10 years, the research on water resources carrying capacity has made a fast progress and achieved a lot. However, it has not formed theories and methods system which recognized by the public due to its late starting. Future research on water resources carrying capacity should not only strengthen the capacity of the theory and basic research, but also consider the water pollution caused by human and learn from the latest theories and scientific and technological means.