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The Thirsty Dragon: Drought Shrinks China’s Largest Freshwater Lake By 75%
August 19th, 2022
Via CGTN, an article on the impact of drought on China’s largest freshwater lake by 75%: Drought conditions triggered by sustained hot weather and low precipitation in east China’s Jiangxi Province have reduced the country’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang, by 75 percent, authorities said on Thursday. As of 10 a.m. Thursday, the total area […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: High Temperatures, Drought Affect China’s Drinking Water, Crops
August 16th, 2022
Via The Frontier Post, an article on the impact that high temperatures and drought are having on China’s drinking water and crops: Unusually high temperatures and a prolonged drought are affecting large swaths of China, reducing crop yields and drinking water supplies. The lack of rain has been especially marked in the southwestern megacity of […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: The Imbalance of the Asian Water Tower
July 20th, 2022
Via Nature, an abstract on a new research paper on the Third Pole: The Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalayan system, named the Third Pole because it is the largest global store of frozen water after the polar regions, provides a reliable water supply to almost 2 billion people. Marked atmospheric warming has changed the balance of this so-called […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Taming The Waters of China’s Grand Canal
June 3rd, 2022
Via The Economist, an article on China’s Grand Canal, full for the first time in decades: When Kublai Khan tired of spending winters at his pleasure-dome in Xanadu, the Mongol overlord of China, who ruled during the 13th century, built a new capital in what is now Beijing. In order to feed the city, he […]
Read more »Saving The Mekong Delta From Drowning
May 12th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on the Mekong Delta: Southeast Asia’s most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong River Delta requires urgent, concerted action among countries in the region to lessen the impact of upstream dams and better manage water and sediments […]
Read more »The Mekong Delta’s Transboundary Water Problems
May 3rd, 2022
Via East Asia Forum, a report on the Mekong delta’s transboundary water problems: The Mekong River is the lifeblood of countries in the Mekong region, but the past few years have seen water flows recurringly decline and processes of saltwater intrusion accelerating in the Vietnamese Mekong delta. These transboundary hydrological challenges have detrimental effects on millions of people living […]
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