Abstract:To solve the problems of water quality-based water shortage and rigid constraints on water resources in Shanghai, taking 43 urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) as the research objects, the current situation of their tail water reuse is systematically analyzed, and the development paths are proposed. The research result shows that all urban WWTPs in Shanghai have achieved 100% first-level A or above discharge. The reuse of tail water has formed a pattern of “in-plant circulation and out-plant expansion”. In the plants, an average tap water substitution rate of 80.7% is achieved through the production replenishment, landscape greening and water source heat pumps. Outside the plants, it is mainly used for industrial purposes, supplemented by ecological water replenishment and urban miscellaneous uses. Based on this, a three-in-one path of technology empowerment and standard improvement, spatial adaptation and layout, and scene integration and efficiency enhancement is constructed, and the focus is on the industrial recycling, ecological water replenishment and quality improvement, expansion of urban miscellaneous uses, green irrigation in agriculture, and coordinated development of energy, which provides the support for Shanghai to build a characteristic sewage resource utilization system, and also offers a reference for the resource utilization of sewage in similar coastal cities.