There are at least 10 suggestions for harnessing the Yellow River.

1, planting trees and grass, greening the earth, improving local climate, planting trees and grass, expanding vegetation coverage, developing ecological economy, combining resource development with soil and water conservation, conserving soil and water, preventing soil erosion, improving local climate, reducing flood disasters, increasing soil fertility and increasing underground runoff.

2. Controlling population and improving population quality The Yellow River Basin should pay attention to effectively controlling population growth, and at the same time urge citizens to consciously protect the environment and water resources, use water rationally and save water.

3, unified planning, coordinated development of the Yellow River water resources unified management, overall planning of the Yellow River water resources utilization and scheduling scheme, adjust measures to local conditions, give full play to the role of large-scale water conservancy projects in flood storage and runoff.

4. Increase water resource use fees, promote water conservation and implement a system of paid use of water resources, collect water resource use fees according to law, and appropriately raise water prices, so as to stimulate people's water use concepts, awaken water-saving awareness, and avoid or reduce water waste.

5, adjust the agricultural structure in the basin, reduce water consumption, and vigorously cultivate and popularize drought-tolerant crops in the basin to reduce irrigation water consumption.

6. Scientific farming and implementation of new water-saving irrigation technologies: pipe irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, drip irrigation and infiltration irrigation are internationally recognized new water-saving irrigation technologies, and the water consumption per hectare of farmland for water-saving irrigation is only 1/5 of that of traditional irrigation. The Yellow River basin has a vast area of cultivated land, and traditional irrigation methods are common. The new technology of water-saving irrigation has a broad market and great water-saving potential. This should be promoted not only in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, but also in Ningxia Plain and Hetao Plain, which are big water users of the Yellow River.

7. Strengthening sewage purification and improving the reuse rate of water resources is an important means of industrial water saving. Efforts should be made to improve the purification and treatment of polluted water bodies, improve the reuse rate of industrial water as much as possible, and save water.

8. The South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the Inter-basin South-to-North Water Diversion Project and the Yellow River Diversion Project are important measures to solve the water shortage in the Yellow River basin.

9. Update industrial and transportation equipment and design new instruments to absorb and store heat, so that the heat energy released in transportation and industry can be reused. Reduce man-made heat release and reduce the drying of air on land.

10. Reduce the oil slick on the ocean surface. Take effective measures to recover waste oil, transport oil reasonably, and reduce oil from entering the sea. The "ocean oil absorber" aims to "clean up" the oil slick on the ocean surface regularly to reduce the phenomenon of marine desertification.