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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China 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...
Beijingers Resort to Illegal Wells for Clean Water
South China Morning Post’s Li Jing reports that residents in parts of Beijing have drilled...
China’s Next Water Project Uproots Over 330,000
Originally thought up by Mao Zedong in the 50s and given Beijing’s go-ahead in 2001, the...
Rush For Bottled Water After Benzene Scare
Reuters reports that people in Lanzhou have rushed to buy bottled water after authorities...
Ai Weiwei Makes Acting Debut in Secret Sci-Fi Short
Following a foray into music last year, Ai Weiwei is set to make his acting debut in a ten-minute...
Relocated Poor Face Major Challenges in Cities
Agence France-Presse in Anshun (via The South China Morning Post) reports that, in the process of...
China Moving Forward With New Water-Price Plan
The Wall Street Journal’s Brian Spegele and William Kazer report new plans to promote...
Fresh Water Discovered Beneath Seabed Off China
Australian researchers have discovered enormous fresh water reservoirs beneath the seabed off...
Upper Yangtze Ecology “Collapses”
At China.org.cn, Wu Jin reports the devastation of the upper Yangtze river by overfishing,...
Mining in Tibet Threatens Asia’s Rivers
On their website, The Third Pole has posted an interview with Gabriel Lafitte, author of the...
Water in China: Desperate Measures
The Economist highlights water pollution, disappearing rivers and U.N. standard-shattering water...
Beijing Sees Its Own Reflection in Water Crisis
Critics accuse Chinese authorities of overemphasizing more politically convenient explanations for...
Beijing Water Shortage “Worse Than Middle East”
chinadialogue’s Luna Lin writes that Beijing now consumes over 70% more water than local...
Mining Tibet, Poisoning China
At The Asian Review of Books, the University of Sydney’s Kerry Brown reviews Gabriel Lafitte’s forthcoming book, Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World, available October 8th: A few...
Improved Outlook for Himalayan Water Supply
Ars Technica’s Scott K. Johnson reports that the effects of retreating Himalayan glaciers on China’s rivers this century may be fairly limited, offering some rare respite from a stream of bad news about the...
Singapore Companies Aim to Quench China’s Thirst
Reuters’ Eveline Danubrata describes Singaporean companies’ scramble to help address China’s severe water shortages: Singapore is a hub for water technology because of its own concerns about water security....
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