晋陕蒙宁甘地区是我国的能源“金三角”。该地区煤炭储量和产量均占我国的三分之二左右，已成为我国煤炭开发的主战场，但该地区水资源仅占全国的3.9 %。针对该地区煤炭现代开采与水资源短缺和生态脆弱的矛盾，以神东矿区现代煤炭开采为工程依托，创新研究方法，揭示了该地区现代开采水资源的运移规律和地表生态“自修复”规律，首次开发了煤矿分布式地下水库技术和应用“自修复”规律的地表生态主动性减损及修复技术，建立了示范工程，为煤炭开采水资源和地表生态保护探索了一条新的技术途径。

The energy "Golden Triangle", which consists of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Ningxia, accounts for two-thirds of coal reserves and the overall coal production of China. The energy “Golden Triangle” plays an important role in the country's coal supply network, but it has only 3.9 percents of water resource in China. According to the contradiction between modern coal mining and severe water scarcity, the groundwater migration law and surface ecology environment self-recovery law with the development of modern coal mining is revealed, using innovative research method based on modern coal mining project of Shendong area. The coal mine distributed underground reservoirs and surface ecology recovery technology is firstly developed under the condition of modern coal mining in Western China, and the demonstration project is successfully established, which puts forward effective technical way to conservation of water resources and surface ecology recovery.