Based on the data from environmental monitoring and survey, several water environmental issues are identified in Dongting Lake area. The primary reasons causing these issues are analyzed from the aspects of hydrology change, pollution sources and environmental management. Furthermore, this paper also investigates the following ways to deal with these issues:increasing water environment carrying capacity by smoothing water network, reducing the amount of water pollutant generated, performing pollution source control and key areas renovating strategy, reducing the pollution from upstream areas, innovating environmental renovation mechanism and advancing the reform practice of ecological civilization system.

Dongting Lake area  /  water environment  /  enviromental governance