China Offers Drought Relief Downstream
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event,...
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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’s Poisonous Waterways
Writer Sheng Keyi reflects on her return trips home to the once “sweet and sparkling”...
How Bad is China’s Water Shortage Problem?
Forestry officials said Monday that China’s wetlands have shrunk almost 9 percent since...
China Moving Forward With New Water-Price Plan
The Wall Street Journal’s Brian Spegele and William Kazer report new plans to promote...
Mining in Tibet Threatens Asia’s Rivers
On their website, The Third Pole has posted an interview with Gabriel Lafitte, author of the...
How Resource Scarcity Constrains China
Damien Ma and William Adams’ In Line Behind a Billion People explores how scarcity—in terms...
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...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (11)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Leak Sparks Panic Buying of Bottled Water
An industrial leak into a local river has sparked panic buying of bottled water in Sichuan. From Xinhua: Residents have stormed supermarkets, stores and shopping malls for bottled water, despite the government’s efforts to...
Defeating the Deserts “May Take China 300 Years.”
Chinese authorities have acknowledged that, while progress has been made in recent years, securing the country against encroaching deserts may take centuries. From Jonathan Watts in The Guardian: China has gained a sliver of...
Harnessing the Ulan Buh Desert
While a recent Los Angeles Times article emphasized the use of water diversion to supply China’s cities, Beijing Review describes ongoing efforts to reclaim Inner Mongolian desert with laborious planting fed by redirection...
China Modifies Water-Diversion Plan Over Environmental Concerns
Authorities are implementing a four-year delay in the south-north water diversion project amid environmental concerns. The Wall Street Journal reports: The total project, at an estimated $62 billion, is expected to cost nearly...
Opinion: Water Trading in China: A Step Toward Sustainability
Yingling Liu writes in the online magazine Worldchanging about the need to create a market for water rights in China (h/t The New Republic): In recent years, scarcity and pollution of water have become the paramount...
Water Woes In Kazakhstan
China Dialogue has a fantastic slideshow and article from freelance journalist Jack Carino on the nasty effects of Chinese water consumption on Central Asia. See the full slideshow here. From the article: On the upstream side is...
Olympics Water Diversion Threatens Millions
A Chinese official in Shaanxi province criticized Beijing’s water diversion plan for the Olympics that will bring water from southern provinces to the north. According to critics, the plan is short-sighted and will...
Changes in Diet, Rising Population May Strain China’s Water Supply
From Science News: China may be forced to increase its food imports as the country’s growing population continues to demand more water-intensive foods. Junguo Liu, an environmental scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of...
Deal With Global Warming: Try Not to Divorce – China Youth Daily
An interesting point on a personal level in helping fight global warming. Translated by CDT from China Youth Daily: With the rising divorce rate, China may soon become another target of finger pointing from the developed world when it comes to the global warming talks, and this one may seem light years away from any […]
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