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The Thirsty Dragon: China Renews Yellow Alert For Drought
September 11th, 2022
Via CGTN, a report on China’s renewal of its yellow alert for drought: China’s national observatory on Saturday renewed a yellow alert for drought, as a lack of rainfall has persisted in multiple regions. Moderate to severe droughts hit parts of Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan and Tibet on Saturday, […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Drought Causes Yangtze To Shrink
September 9th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on the drought’s impact upon China’s Yangtze River: A record-breaking drought has caused parts of the Yangtze River to dry up – affecting hydropower, shipping routes, limiting drinking water supplies and even revealing previously submerged Buddhist statues. The Yangtze is China’s most important river, providing water to more than 400 […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: How China Is Responding to Its Water Woes
September 9th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, an article on how the scorching heatwave in southwest China in August laid bare the country’s many interrelated water security challenges: This has been China’s driest and hottest summer since it began keeping records in 1961. The severe heatwave was brought on by a greater-than-usual Western Pacific subtropical high, further compounded by […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Plots Ambitious Water Infrastructure Push
September 7th, 2022
Via Reuters, an article on how China – after its long drought – is plotting an ambitious water infrastructure push: After a record heatwave parched large areas of the Yangtze basin, Chinese provinces are planning to spend billions of dollars on new water infrastructure as they try to fend off the growing impact of extreme […]
Read more »New Weather Patterns Are Turning Water Into a Weapon
September 5th, 2022
Via Bloomberg, a report on how the melting glaciers of the Himalayas have become a political tool in the tussle between China, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: It’s well below freezing as Renoj Thayyen climbs to the weather station high up in India’s Karakoram mountains, his Koflach boots crunching shin-deep into the snow. The 50-year-old hydrologist […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Turns To Technology To Fight Drought
September 2nd, 2022
Courtesy of WIRED, an article on how China is exploring cloud seeding, GM crops, and a multibillion-dollar water-transfer system to address its worst water shortages on record: On a grassy plateau overlooking a valley in central China, two officials stood by as a small, thin rocket blasted off from the rear of a pickup truck. […]
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