Preliminary study on vulnerability assessment of water resource

Water resource is the mostly environmental factor which has effect on the sustainable development, so, it is important to estimate vulnerability of water resource. With introducing the current situation of water resource in our country, the passage leads the definition of vulnerability assessment of water resource in, and explains the intension what in it preliminarily. Base on that, the article attempts to summarize the indicators, methods and calculations. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.