How Bad is China’s Water Shortage Problem?
Forestry officials said Monday that China’s wetlands have shrunk almost 9 percent since...
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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...
Water in China: Desperate Measures
The Economist highlights water pollution, disappearing rivers and U.N. standard-shattering water...
How Resource Scarcity Constrains China
Damien Ma and William Adams’ In Line Behind a Billion People explores how scarcity—in terms...
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...
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...
China’s Hard Long Slog
At his Sinostand blog, Economic Observer’s Eric Fish argues that China faces bigger dangers than an economic crash: namely, severe water shortages and pollution, and an aging and gender-imbalanced population. I try to be...
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....
China’s Massive Water Problem
This week saw the release of China’s first national water report, covering “river conditions, water conservancy projects, water consumption, river development and management, and water and soil conservation in...
China’s Ragtag Shale Army Far from Revolution
China’s vast estimated shale gas reserves may hold the eventual promise of lower-carbon energy—at least compared with the country’s current diet of coal—and freedom from the need to secure oil supplies from the...
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,...
China Strains to Satisfy Growing Demand for Meat
For the Center for Investigative Reporting, PRI’s Mary Kay Magistad reports on the economic and political implications of China’s rising demand for meat, with China now producing and consuming half the world’s...
Video: A Story of Invisible Water
A 16-minute documentary by Lynn Zhang and Shirley Han Ying kicks off an Asia Society China Green series on China’s South-to-North Water Diversion project. The filmmakers follow a group of farmers who have spent many years...
How Building Shanghai Up is Bringing It Down
At TIME’s Ecocentric blog, Kate Springer discusses the problem of subsidence which, according to a recent government report, affects more than fifty cities and around 50,000 square miles of land across China. The issue is...
China’s Looming Conflict Between Energy and Water
China’s growing thirst for energy is driving increased exploitation of inland resources. At Yale Environment 360, Christina Larson examines the environmental implications of China’s ‘West-to-East Coal-Power...
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...
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