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The Thirsty Dragon: Water-nomics And Trade Offs
August 24th, 2015
Courtesy of China Water Risk, a new report suggesting that tough trade-offs are on the horizon as China manages its water for economic development which may cause various outputs to shift within China as cotton clashes with coal to “free up” water: HSBC releases report titled “No Water, More Trade-offs”. This new report is the 3rd in the “No Water” […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Asia’s Melting Glaciers Might Lead To Future Conflicts
August 19th, 2015
Via Science Times, a look at the potential that Asia’s melting glaciers might give rise to future conflicts over water: A new study revealed the fact that over the past 50 years the glaciers in Asia’s Tian Shan mountains have lost more than a quarter of their total. At this rate, they lost about four times more than […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Will ‘Water Rings’ Help Quench Beijing’s Thirst?
July 1st, 2015
Via Caixin Online, details on a China’s ambitious plan to link lakes and canals with a network of waterway rings that encircle the capital: The city of Beijing has floated a plan for a 230 kilometer network of waterways that improves the urban ecosystem and helps quench the thirst of the capital’s 20 million people. […]
Read more »Peace Pipe: China’s Plan To Pump Water To Taiwan
May 25th, 2015
Courtesy of The Economist, a report on a Chinese plan to pump water to its rival, Taiwan: Kinmen, a cluster of tiny islands two kilometres (just over a mile) off the coast of China’s Fujian Province, bears the scars of many a past battle. Chiang Kai-shek used the archipelago for his rearguard after Mao Zedong’s […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Struggle For Water Security
April 21st, 2015
Via Terra Daily, a look at China’s struggle for water security: Way back in 1999, before he became China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao warned that water scarcity posed one of the greatest threats to the “survival of the nation”. Sixteen years later, that threat looms ever larger, casting a forbidding shadow over China’s energy and […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Tibetan Rivers At Risk
March 26th, 2015
Via Meltdown in Tibet, an interesting look at some of the risks faced by Tibet’s major rivers: On the drawing board, at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, is a massive water diversion project. The Western sector of the South-to-North Water Diversion Scheme involves the building of three mega-dams (with wall heights of 175 metres, […]
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