Setting goals and then finding approach to accomplish that is the traditional planning idea. In this article, the traditional planning idea is reversed. According to the actual situation of the planned municipality, a road to sustainable development by avoiding traps is searched. First, the happiness is taken as the final goal of the development, and some traps which may be encountered during the development are identified. Then the practice of water management in Zhangye Municipality is briefly described. Based on the actual situation of the Golden Zhangye which is very dependent on water resources, for avoiding the traps, a happiness oriented water resources management strategy framework is created, which mainly concerns water use gross control system, equity system and improving the water use efficiency. Finally, combining the framework with the actual situation of the study area, the countermeasures to solve the problems and the planning schemes are put forward.

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