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The Thirsty Dragon: China Expands Rural Water Coverage
March 14th, 2024
Via ECNS.com, a report on Chinese efforts to expand water supplies into remote areas: With 90 percent of its rural population already having access to tap water, China will strive to ensure such safe drinking water reaches one-fifth of the remaining rural residents this year, even though most of them live in sparsely-populated areas where […]
Read more »Cambodia to Divert Mekong Trade via China-Built Canal, Vexing Vietnam
March 13th, 2024
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on a planned Phnom Penh-coast link raises alarms amid regional influence tussle: From his house on the banks of the Mekong River, an hour from Phnom Penh, Mao Sarin can watch ships laden with containers chug by on their way to Vietnam and the giant river delta. If the […]
Read more »Mines Exporting To China Threaten Arizona’s Water
March 2nd, 2024
Via the Arizona Capitol Times, an article on how mines exporting to China threaten Arizona’s water This last year, the Arizona government repeatedly received favorable national attention for positive conservation actions: protecting the state’s scarce groundwater supplies from foreign-owned farms that repeatedly violated laws or over-pumped declining aquifers. Last December, Gov. Katie Hobbs was lauded […]
Read more »Mongolia’s Beijing-Financed Hydro-Electric Dams Threaten Lake Baikal, Russia Says
February 18th, 2024
Via Window on Eurasia, a report on Russia’s displeasure with Mongolia’s Beijing-financed hydro-electric dams that they claim threaten Lake Baikal: Mongolia’s decision to build hydro-electric dams to solve its domestic electricity shortage, a decision that Beijing has backed by financing the project, threatens transborder rivers flowing from Mongolia into Russia and even the survival of […]
Read more »Thirsty Dragon: China Is Building World’s First “Super Dam” Along The Yarlung Zangbo River
February 9th, 2024
Via , a report on China’s “Super Dam” on The Yarlung Zangbo River: China is the undisputed world champion of dam building. Not only do they have more working large dams than every other country in the world, but they also hold the record for the largest capacity hydroelectric power station in operation: the Three Gorges […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Opens Taps On Its Newest Water Diversion Project
January 30th, 2024
Via ECNS, an update on a giant project diverting water from the Xijiang River in the western part of the Pearl River to the cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan in Guangdong province: A giant project diverting water from the Xijiang River in the western part of the Pearl River to the cities of Shenzhen and […]
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