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The Thirsty Dragon: Balancing Water Security With Economic Development On China’s Water Tower
October 17th, 2017
Via China Water Risk, a detailed look at the Tarim Basin – China’s ‘Water Tower’ with 41% of its ice but also >1/3 of it faces ‘extremely high’ water stress – where China must balance water security with economic development: The Tarim River, running over 1,321km across Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is China’s longest inland […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: Why Do Hydro-Hegemons Cooperate?
October 17th, 2017
Via the Global Water Forum, an article on China’s and India’s transboundary river policies: Hydro-hegemons are states which assert power over other riparian states in a shared river basin. In Asia, both China and India are hydro-hegemons. China is the upstream riparian on many of Asia’s most important international rivers, including the Mekong, Brahmaputra, Sutlej, […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: How The World’s Largest Water Diversion Project Benefits Beijing
October 16th, 2017
Via China Daily, a look at how the world’s largest water diversification project benefits Beijing:
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Fight Against Deserts Could Hurt Its Water Security
October 16th, 2017
Via The Conversation, a report on how China’s afforestation programs over the year to make drylands viable for its economy will also make China’s water crisis worse, as more trees need more water to grow: For the first time, China has hosted a major global event on desertification and land degradation, the Cop-13, United Nations Convention […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: A New Front Opens In Asia’s Water Wars
October 12th, 2017
Via The Asia Times, a report on water politics in Asia: China has long regarded freshwater as a strategic weapon – one that the country’s leaders have no compunction about wielding to advance their foreign-policy goals. After years of using its chokehold on almost every major transnational river system in Asia to manipulate water flows themselves, China […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China Diverts 10 Billion Cubic Meters Of Water From South To North
October 4th, 2017
Via China Daily, a look at China’s massive water diversion project which has so far transferred 10 billion cubic meters of water from the south to the draught-prone north: Some 53.1 million people in northern China have benefited from the country’s massive water diversion project which has so far transferred 10 billion cubic meters of […]
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