ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: In China, the contradiction between water supply and water demand is becoming a critical problem because of deteriorating water shortage and increasing water demand. Uniform price and policy of residential water cannot promote sustainable utilization of water. In this paper, grade of water price bearing capacity for 14 cities in Liaoning Province is defined based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation. Taking Dalian for example, first the full-cost is given through calculating resources water price, engineering water price, environmental water price and marginal cost. Then the compensation mechanism and policy of Dalian is provided after comparing actual water price, full-cost and water price bearing capacity. The specific compensation mechanism and policy is given according to the different relations of full-cost, actual water price and water price bearing capacity which may occur in other 13 cities of Liaoning Province.
