Report Ties Coal Plants to China’s Water Shortage
A new report from Greenpeace on the coal industry’s impact on global water resources has...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 22, 2016
A new report from Greenpeace on the coal industry’s impact on global water resources has...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 21, 2016
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event,...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 12, 2014
After a decade of construction, the middle route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion...
by Anne Henochowicz | Aug 17, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Scott Greene | Jul 19, 2013
Torrential rains on Thursday and Friday have flooded Kunming, in Yunnan province, as Xinhua News reports that 2 people are dead and 1 still missing in the city’s third major flood since a drought ended in May: The downpour...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 23, 2012
As world population swells and the threats of climate change become increasingly prominent, freshwater resource security is a growing concern around the world. Rapid urbanization and industrialization in countries like China...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 14, 2012
According to Xinhua, nearly 8 million people and over 4.5 million livestock in 13 provinces suffered from inadequate drinking water as of April 5th. Severe drought, usually a characteristic of the north, increasingly afflicts...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 15, 2011
Ministry of Tofu has posted a striking set of photos showing small children in Sichuan clinging to cliffside paths with heavy loads of water on their backs. According to the state media, until September 8, altogether 3.41...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 27, 2011
The Guardian’s Damian Carrington writes on the unsustainability of water use in China and the Middle East: The world’s population tripled in the 20th century, but the thirst for water grew six-fold, the large...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 12, 2011
After suffering a severe drought, parts of China are now enduring floods which have so far killed 94 people. From AFP: Flooding on the southern reaches of the Yangtze river and in southwest China’s Guangxi region in recent...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 7, 2011
The Washington Post has published a slideshow of images of the Three Gorges Dam, in the wake of the government’s acknowledgment that the engineering feat has also brought major negative environmental and social...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 6, 2011
Drought-plagued central China is now preparing for torrential rains, Reuters reports: Rainfall of between 10-152 millimetres could hit China’s parched central provinces of Hunan, Anhui and Jiangxi, the China News website...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 1, 2011
A lengthy article by Edward Wong in the New York Times looks at the various issues and complications surrounding the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, a massive and risky project to help resolve the severe scarcity of...
by Sophie Beach | May 17, 2011
A long-standing drought is drying up the Yangtze River and surrounding reservoirs. From the New York Times: As of Sunday, 4 medium-size reservoirs and 1,388 small reservoirs in Hubei had dropped below the allowable discharge...
by Samuel Wade | May 12, 2011
The Yangtze River, which carries 80% of China’s river freight, has been closed to ocean-going vessels in response to historically low water levels. From the AFP: The water level along the lower reaches of the river near...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 28, 2011
China’s chief meteorologist has reported that the severe droughts of recent months should not significantly affect the country’s winter wheat harvest. From Xinhua: Zheng Guoguang, head of the China Meteorological...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 16, 2011
The Globe and Mail reports that China’s severe drought – the worst in two centuries in some areas, according to Xinhua – is impacting food prices and supply around the world: China is grappling with drought...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 10, 2011
Global Times describes the means by which the snowfall was enticed, as well as its side effects: Weather modification staff worked at 33 locations through the night. By 6 am Thursday, 759 silver iodide rods had been burned in...