摘要
•The synthetically conceptual model of urban lake’s water ecological carrying capacity (WECC) has been developed.•Social-economy, tourism activity and water quality were taken into account in the indicator system.•Indicators have weighted by using the Structure Entropy Weight method.•The value of WECC of East Lake was always more than 1, which indicated that the water quality trended to deteriorate.•Mitigating the carrying capacity of social-economy is the primary target of water resources management.