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...
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticleWater 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....
View ArticleChina’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...
View ArticleChina’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...
View ArticleSingapore 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...
View ArticleChina’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...
View ArticleImproved 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...
View ArticleBeijing Water Shortage “Worse Than Middle East”
chinadialogue’s Luna Lin writes that Beijing now consumes over 70% more water than local resources can support: The per capita annual water availability is now around 120 cubic metres, well below the...
View ArticleBeijing Sees Its Own Reflection in Water Crisis
Critics accuse Chinese authorities of overemphasizing more politically convenient explanations for the country’s deepening water problems, and implementing the wrong solutions in response. From David...
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 ArticleWater in China: Desperate Measures
The Economist highlights water pollution, disappearing rivers and U.N. standard-shattering water scarcity in China, and argues that the country cannot build its way out of its severe water shortages....
View ArticleFresh Water Discovered Beneath Seabed Off China
Australian researchers have discovered enormous fresh water reservoirs beneath the seabed off China and elsewhere, a development that could offer some relief from China’s acute water shortages but...
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...
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