| Water is a basic component of the environment; it is a key factor of keeping social stability and economic sustainable development as well. With the fast development of the national economy and people's living standards, urban water requirement rises year after year. At the same time, water environment pollution becomes serious gradually because of the fast step of urbanization and the enlargement of industrialization. Water shortage and deterioration have become two major problems of water.Water environment carrying capacity is an important basis to coordinate economy, society and the complex ecosystem sustainable development. Putting forward the definition of it and research on it is of great theoretical and practical significance. Search on water environment carrying capacity is still in its infancy both at home and abroad. To strengthen exploration of water carrying capacity will not only provide basis for the sustainable development of economy, society and complex ecosystem, but also in favor of the health of people living and sustainable development of the whole nation. Because that Qingpu is the location of drinking water source of Shanghai, it is very important to keep the quality of its water environment.On the basis of in-depth discussion of the theory of water environment carrying capacity, this paper focus on the research of water environment carrying capacity with the combination of sustainable development theory and "nature-economy-society complex system "theory. By analyzing the current situation of water environment of Qingpu, this paper set up sustainable water environment carrying capacity target system according to its actual situation, then, calculating the water environment carrying capacity with the method of AHP. And also, the paper put forward some useful suggestions which provide important basis for water environment improvement and sustainable development according to the actual situation of water environment of Qingpu. |