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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...
View ArticleOpinion: 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...
View ArticleChina 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,...
View ArticleHarnessing 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...
View ArticleDefeating 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...
View ArticleLeak 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...
View ArticleCensorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (11)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org...
View ArticleThousands 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 toxic spill: Thousands of dead fish have been found floating in a river in central China following a...
View ArticleHow Resource Scarcity Constrains China
Damien Ma and William Adams’ In Line Behind a Billion People explores how scarcity—in terms of not only natural but also economic, social and political resources—”will define China’s ascent in the next...
View ArticleMining in Tibet Threatens Asia’s Rivers
On their website, The Third Pole has posted an interview with Gabriel Lafitte, author of the book Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World, in which the author and...
View ArticleChina Moving Forward With New Water-Price Plan
The Wall Street Journal’s Brian Spegele and William Kazer report new plans to promote investment and efficiency by selectively increasing water prices: The changes are part of a wider government...
View ArticleHow Bad is China’s Water Shortage Problem?
Forestry officials said Monday that China’s wetlands have shrunk almost 9 percent since 2003, painting a dim picture of the country’s water shortage problem. From Reuters: Since 2003, wetlands...
View ArticleChina’s Poisonous Waterways
Writer Sheng Keyi reflects on her return trips home to the once “sweet and sparkling” but now “lifeless toxic expanse” that marks the factory-lined Lanxi River in Hunan Province. From The New York...
View ArticleChina’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 South-to-North Water Diversion Project had run a bill of $79 billion as of January, making it one of the world’s...
View ArticleChina Offers Drought Relief Downstream
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event, China has launched a “water diplomacy” mission, discharging an emergency water supply to downstream Mekong...
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