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...
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LatestChina Offers Drought Relief Downstream
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event,...
Key Section of Water Diversion Project Opens
After a decade of construction, the middle route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion...
Ministry of Truth: Flipping Cars in Anhui Province
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Heavy Flooding in Kunming Kills 2
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...
Quenching China’s Thirst for Water
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...
Causes & Consequences of Southern Droughts
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...
Chinese Children in Drought-Hit Region Make Cliffhanging Trips to Fetch Water
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...
Water Use in China “an Environmental Ponzi Scheme”
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...
More than 170 Dead and Missing in China Floods
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...
Criticism Flows at Three Gorges Dam
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...
Drought-hit China Provinces to Get Rain Relief this Week
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...
Ambitious Plan for China’s Water Crisis Spurs Concern
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...
China Rations Power Use Amid Drought
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...
Drought Halts Yangtze Shipping
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...
Winter Wheat Expected to Survive Drought
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...
China’s Drought has Global Implications
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...
“Coaxed” Snowfall Does Little to Quench Drought
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...
