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The Thirsty Dragon: Mixed Feelings About China’s New River
October 26th, 2011
Via American Public Radio, a brief look at China’s 800 mile-long man-made waterway which will divert water from the Yangtze River in southern China to the northern megacities of Beijing and Tianjin: Kai Ryssdal: The interesting tidbit from the European debt crisis negotiations today goes a little something like this. It’s gotten so bad that […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Takes a Loss to Get Ahead in the Business of Fresh Water
October 26th, 2011
Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting article on China’s desalination initiatives: Towering over the Bohai Sea shoreline on this city’s outskirts, the Beijiang Power and Desalination Plant is a 26-billion-renminbi technical marvel: an ultrahigh-temperature, coal-fired generator with state-of-the-art pollution controls, mated to advanced Israeli equipment that uses its leftover heat to distill seawater […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Glaciers On China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Melting Fast Due To Global Warming
October 26th, 2011
Via Xinhua, a report that glaciers in southwest China’s Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, the major source of the country’s largest rivers, are melting faster than ever under the influence of global warming. As the article notes: “…Experts have been conducting research on the waters, geology, glaciers, and wetlands in the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Will China Trigger Potential Water Wars?
October 25th, 2011
Via Terra Daily, an article on how the scarcity of water in Asia could become a thorny issue for the region and trigger major conflicts. As the report notes: A rise in population, increased water use and the expectation that Asia will be most affected by global warming will affect the availability of water for […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Plans To Divert Water On The Tibetan Plateau
October 24th, 2011
Via UBC’s Asia Pacific Memo, a brief summary of China’s plans to divert water on the Tibetan Plateau: “…The prospect of China controlling the taps of Asia’s main rivers is a subject of intense debate. Downstream countries are understandably concerned. But Chinese experts say it is the Chinese who should be most worried about its […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Decade Plan for Water
October 24th, 2011
Via Columbia University’s State of the Planet blog, a report on China’s recent No. 1 central document which – for the first time ever – included water. As the article notes: Once a year, a No. 1 central document is issued in Beijing that states the government’s priorities for the next year. The issues addressed […]
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