Translation: “‘Cut Off Water to HK’? Are You Concussed?”
In an interview with the People’s Daily’s Xiakedao program last week, Zheng Yongnian, former...
water supply
China’s Water Diversion Plan Reaches the Brahmaputra
According to Stephen Chen from South China Morning Post, Chinese engineers are making plans to...
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...
China Moving Forward With New Water-Price Plan
The Wall Street Journal’s Brian Spegele and William Kazer report new plans to promote...
China’s Battle Between Coal, Water and Clean Air
The Chinese government announced a new plan to improve air pollution by reducing coal consumption...
Thousands of Dead Fish Found After Toxic Spill
Reuters reports that thousands of fish have been found dead in a river outside of Wuhan after a...
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...
A Cancer Cycle, From Here to China
An aniline spill in Shanxi on New Year’s Eve caused extended disruption of water supplies in the downstream Hebei city of Handan earlier this month. Public anger at the authorities’ five-day cover-up then led to four...
700 Mountains Flattened for New Desert City
Late last month, premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang declared that boosting the country’s urban population, which passed 50% of the total a year ago, was China’s most promising avenue for further development. From Caijing:...
China to Scale Up Water Prices
Caixin online reports a government official’s confirmation that reforms of water pricing for both residential and industrial use will go ahead: NDRC [National Development & Reform Commission] Vice Director Xie...
Why We Care About the Price of Water in China
At Bloomberg, The Council on Foreign Relations’ Peter Orszag argues for higher water prices in China to encourage efficiency: In Oman, a Middle Eastern desert country where water is scarce, it is understood to be more...
Guardian: China’s Water Crisis
As part of their China at the Crossroads series, the Guardian looks at China’s water crisis. One article visits eco-refugees in Gansu: Huang is one of millions of Chinese eco-refugees who have been resettled because their...
China Plans 59 Reservoirs to Collect Meltwater from its Shrinking Glaciers
The Guardian reports on a new project in Xinjiang that aims to collect water from melting glaciers to address the country’s water problem: The far western province of Xinjiang, home to many of the planet’s highest...
China Conservation Efforts Aid Aquifer Levels
From the Wall Street Journal: Underground water levels in Beijing are rising this year, reversing a nearly decadelong decline, in part because of conservation efforts tied to the Olympics. Aquifer levels in the Chinese capital...
Millions Forfeit Water to Olympic Games
The Times gives a dramatic account of drought experienced by farmers in Hebei allegedly brought on by the diversion of their water supplies to Beijing for the Olympics: The blunders began when officials started to worry that...
Mine Spill Cuts Water Supply in China – AP
From Associated Press via The News tribune: Mine runoff spilled into a central Chinese river, temporarily cutting off drinking water to more than 200,000 people, a state news agency reported. The runoff from a lead-zinc mine polluted the Zijiang river in Hunan province on Thursday, cutting off supplies to the riverside city of Lengshuijiang and […]
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