The declaration of the Yellow River
- keep the river health life

Water is the source of ten thousand species. The river is the mother, is nurturing the human civilization and luxuriant creatures of all things natural parent.
The human economic and social development has entered a new historical period, and river and water are faced with unprecedented crisis challenges.
We have a responsibility to have an obligation to action, with reason, courageous and strong faith, to maintain the health of the mother river life......
A.D. 2005 years on October 17 to 21, from 64 countries and regions more than 20 experts and scholars as well as international organizations more than two thousand delegates from around the world converge Yellow River shore, in zhengzhou to "maintain river health life" as the theme of the second session of the Yellow River international BBS, discuss maintaining river health life, river ethics and how to face the river in misery and crisis. Chinese and foreign experts the widely, serious discussions reached an agreement, the Yellow River declaration published as follows:
The river is the oldest and the most vivid, the most creative life ties. The more she plateau, monarch canyon, made plain, since ancient along the way, not only the formation of basin of rich and varied topography and biological species, and the feeding, nourishing, multiply our human and human great civilization.
Rivers have life. In this flow, recycle life system, through the evaporation, precipitation, transmission, infiltration and runoff link, the water can carry on the multiple exchange, transfer and update, constructing or breed more form, more species, forming a magnificent spectacular, incomparable earth landscape. Because of the river's life and rich and colorful, just had the human life derivative and luxuriant.

People and rivers close interdependence, share weal and woe.

However, due to human activities to the great influence of factors such as, in today's, in the world scope many rivers are facing an unprecedented crisis: riverhead recession, rump disappear, channel stagnate, bed atrophy, discontinuous flow, water pollution and so on, which depend on the river power surrounding ecological system to produce disorder and even collapse! Global ethnic civilization continue also suffered severe question and huge challenge!

In the face of the grim reality, people can not help but worry, is the human not only in enjoy ancestral heritage, but also overdraft offspring wealth?

Maintain river health life, is the human nature in the alert and regression, but also the human society sustainable development request inevitably.

Based on this understanding --

We have the responsibility and obligation: to advocate the idea of harmonious society, and promote the harmony between human and nature process and maintenance rivers due dignity and rights, maintain the integrity of the river itself, diversity and clean sex, make its on the earth health flow.
We have the responsibility and obligation: mobilize the social from all walks of life force, the river health life theory, discusses the water harmonious relations, the establishment of the person and the natural ethics idea, through legislation and the extensive publicity, enabling the people like to cherish their own life value river life, voluntarily protect the river health.
We have the responsibility and obligation: as the spokesman of the rivers, face to the river past hurt, scientific views of development command the overall situation, system establishment watershed comprehensive economic and social development planning, compression beyond the bearing capacity of water resources development indicators, strong push to adjust the industrial structure, and to speed up the establishment of the pace of water-saving society.
We have the responsibility and obligation: to rivers provide sufficient conditions, improve river self adjusting and self-repair ability, to achieve the purpose of harmony with nature.
We have the responsibility and obligation: to set up the new concept of river management, strengthen to the river ontology maintenance and guidance, the exploration and practice, by the science and technology as the forerunner, and gradually restore the health of the rivers face, make the person, rivers, ecological reach the ideal state of harmony.
We have the responsibility and obligation: more appreciative of rivers in human civilization contribution, everbright river to human civilization creativity, remodeling basin residents of mutual recognition, strengthen the public participation, and promote the sustainable development of social civilization.

Respect the river. Do good to the river. To protect the river.

Is willing to interested in maintaining river health life world governments, organizations, enterprises and all social strata positive action, strong power, wisdom offer wisdom, to promote our cause.
Let the river aquatic life of life, running of ages.