The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is situated in the Guangdong province in the P.R. China. It covers the lower part of the Xijiang, Beijiang and Dongjiang deltas, including Shenzhen, the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions and the Pearl Estuary. The river network has a total river length of over 1600 km and a coastline extending over 450 km from east to west. The PRD Region is the most densely populated and economically developed region, which covers an area of 42,600 km2 comprising 9 cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing. In 2005, the PRD Region had a resident population of 43.15 million and a GDP of 1805.9 billion RMB.
Recently Deltares provided a tool for the HKEPD and the Guangdong Environmental Protection Bureau (GDEPB) to support their joint water quality management in the Pearl River Delta.
The figure below gives an impression of the Pearl River Delta Water Quality Model in the new User Interface for Delft3D and SOBEK.
