Article History
Received: 7 May 2020
Accepted: 25 July 2020
First Online: 6 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Meteorological data are available at China Meteorological Data Service Center (). Data on abstraction water from groundwater and surface water, irrigation water and irrigation return water, storage capacity of all reservoirs in Yangtze River were collected from the water resources bulletins of the Yangtze River, which can be downloaded from Changjiang Water Resources Commission (CWRC, ).