Bohai

Water Shortages: Desalination vs. Conservation

Seawater desalination may offer a promising supplement to diversion of freshwater to China’s dry north-east, especially as severe droughts in the south place the latter’s basic logic in question. Critics argue,...

Bohai Sea Drowns in Discharged Waste

While the ConocoPhillips oil spill this summer and last year’s Dalian pipeline explosion have focused attention on pollution in the Bohai Sea, its problems reach both further back and further afield. From Caixin online: 80...

ConocoPhillips In Trouble In China

The Chinese government via the State Oceanic Administration has asked ConocoPhillips for a comprehensive assessment on the oil spill in Bohai Bay. From Forbes: ConocoPhillips said Wednesday that near 1,695 barrels of oil soaked...

Moving Southern Water North and Seawater West

Danwei translates reports of a proposal to hydrate Xinjiang by pumping seawater 2,000 kilometres inland and 1,200 metres uphill from the Bohai Sea: The summit’s basic ideas on the subject of “Moving Seawater West; Bringing Bohai...

China Plans to Shut Projects That Pollute Oil-Rich Bohai Sea – Wing-Gar Cheng

From Bloomberg: China, the world’s second-largest energy user, plans to shut projects that pollute the Bohai Sea to protect the environment. China wants at least 80 percent of waste discharged in northern China’s Bohai area to be treated by 2010, Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan, said in a statement on the central government’s Web site yesterday. […]

China’s boom is killing sea that gives it life, warn scientists – Clifford Coonan

From the Independent (link): China’s spectacular economic boom will mean the death of its major economic and maritime hub, the Bohai sea, unless action is taken to stop industrial pollution of its waters, environmental advisers said yesterday. The warnings, yet another example of the crisis gripping the world’s fastest-growing major economy, come as China tries […]

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