福建地处东南沿海,境内多山,气候温和,雨量充沛,溪流密布,水资源丰富,“八山一水一分田”的地理格局具备了众多良好的修建水库的自然条件。至2013年,福建已建成大小各类水库3 692座,发挥着江河防洪、调控水量、配置水源、发电灌溉、饮水安全、保障用水等资源性配置的基础设施作用,为福建社会经济发展起到支持和支撑作用。在农耕社会时期,为发展农业生产,福建先人很早就懂得利用山势建山塘、在溪流上筑陂蓄水灌 Fujian is located in the southeast coast, the territory of mountainous, mild climate, abundant rainfall, streams, rich in water resources, “Eight mountains and one water a field ” geographical pattern has a lot of good natural conditions for the construction of reservoirs. By 2013, Fujian Province has built 3,692 reservoirs of various sizes and has played an infrastructure role in flood control, regulation and control of water resources, deployment of water sources, generation of irrigation, safe drinking water and safeguarded allocation of water resources for Fujian’s social and economic development Support and support role. In the period of farming society, for the purpose of developing agricultural production, Fujian’s ancestors knew how to make use of the mountain to build ponds and build water storage irrigation