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The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Massive Effort To Purify Seawater Is Drying Up
July 11th, 2016
Via MIT’s Technology Review, a look at how stalled projects and underperforming plants have hampered China’s desalination plans: The site of a seawater desalination plant that could provide up to one-third of the water consumed by Beijing’s households lies about 200 kilometers southeast of the parched Chinese capital. In 2014, China’s state news media reported […]
Read more »Water: Building Bridges Rather Than Divides In Asia
July 11th, 2016
Via China Daily, commentary on the potential of water to serve as a bridge rather than divide in Asia: Asian nations are showing increasing willingness to share their water for a better future. As challenges in the region’s water supply grow, a coordinated response is being initiated by countries to work together to secure this […]
Read more »Turmoil In Saudi Water Sector As Country Runs Dry
July 10th, 2016
Via Middle East Eye, an interesting report on Saudi Arabia, a nation that some predict could run out of water in the next 20 years after decades of mismanagement of domestic resources: Middle East watchers are familiar with the considerable financial problems facing Saudi Arabia as oil prices continue to drag along the bottom and […]
Read more »Solving The Caribbean Water Challenge
July 5th, 2016
Via the Caribbean Journal, a look at the region’s water challenges: As the drought within the Caribbean wears on, countries in the region face great risk, as their tourism-based economies rely heavily on clean, sustainable water sources – and that doesn’t even begin to address the challenge of providing clean water to sustain agricultural initiatives […]
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