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Water shortage is more and more changing into a probability to water protection in numerous nations or parts of East Asia, pushed by way of water over-withdrawal and pollutants, and annoyed by means of weather swap and variability. The ‘Green Water protection in East Asia’ learn, as a part of the motive force for eco-friendly development within the water area of East Asia zone, seeks to discover a sustainable strategy to this problem. the concept that of eco-friendly Water safeguard (GWD) is constructed construction on such ideas as ‘live and construct with nature’, ‘green adaptation’, ‘produce extra with much less’ and ‘low effect development’, and so forth. it's outlined by means of the authors as ‘Green Water security (GWD) is an adaptive administration philosophy and process which seeks to spatially combine usual forces and synthetic interventions, and to stability incentive-based and supply-driven measures, with minimal footprints and externalities in offering water prone and handling similar weather risk.’This file presents a quick account of the water assets and weather development within the sector, places ahead a conceptual framework of GWD according to a version of 3 spatial layers, particularly, ecological base layer, an profession (or land and water use) layer and an infrastructure (network) layer within the heart. The GWD serves because the media to combine the interactions between 3 layers such that the water assets improvement and administration are sustained. in response to the GWD suggestion framework, a menu checklist of GWD measures are formulated, and a collection of rising most sensible practices for adaptive water shortage administration are pointed out via case stories (Australia, Israel, Spain and China).In an attempt to use the GWD notion and process in East Asia, the file depicts a roadmap, with a common approach, concentration for various spatial scales and a realistic instance to demonstrate the place to begin and the way to use those most sensible perform method and GWD measures in addressing water shortage administration factor in a consumer country.