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The Thirsty Dragon: Disappearing Rivers Lead To Desperate Measures
October 10th, 2013
Courtesy of The Economist, an interesting report on China’s water scarcity issues and the fact that building canals is not a ready solution: CHINA’S emperors regarded control over water as one of the principal ways of controlling the country. They poured their kingdom’s resources into vast projects such as the Grand Canal between Beijing […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Water Scarcity in China – Urbanization, Food, and Energy
October 8th, 2013
Via All Roads Lead To China, an interesting look at how water is used in China and how it may be used in the future: Over the last couple of days there have been a couple of stories about water in China, and the fact that it is/ will be China’s primary limit to growth. […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China And The Politics Of Dam Building
September 24th, 2013
Courtesy of The Economist, an article on the damming of China’s great rivers: CHINA has many good reasons not to build the $5.2 billion Xiaonanhai dam on the Yangzi river in Chongqing. The site, on a gentle slope that moves water along only slowly, is not ideal for generating hydropower. The fertile soil makes it […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Urban Billion Grapple With Diminishing Water Resources, Scarcity And Pollution
September 17th, 2013
Via The City Fix, a report on China’s water challenge: Water scarcity in China is exacerbated by the demands of growing cities. China’s Urban Billion is a series of blogs exploring China’s urbanization process. Xiaomei Tan guides TheCityFix readers through China’s opportunities and challenges as it transforms into an urbanized society. She examines the urbanization process as it relates to governance, […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China To Supply Water To Taiwan’s Outlying Islands
September 4th, 2013
Via Focus Taiwan, a report on Chinese/Taiwanese water diplomacy: Taiwan and China have agreed to provide fresh water from the southeastern Chinese city of Jinjiang to the Taiwan-held outlying county of Kinmen, to solve a looming water shortage that is expected to hurt the county’s economic lifeline. The set of islands that make up Kinmen […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Every Year, Beijing Uses 400 Billion More Gallons of Water Than It’s Got
September 1st, 2013
Via Motherboard, a report on China’s water stress: The words “impending water shortage,†bring to mind arid places in the Middle East or Las Vegas. But in Beijing, the per capita annual water availability is well below the United Nations’ absolute water scarcity threshold, at just a tenth of the world average. China’s capital city […]
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