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The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Water Problem
September 8th, 2012
Via Caixin, an article on China’s water problems: This summer’s weather has been intense. In Beijing, flash floods paralyzed the capital in late July and killed at least 77 people. A storm that flooded Manila turned the Philippines’ capital into what one official called “Water World.” Hong Kong raised the Signal Ten typhoon warning for […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Largest Hydropower Station On Mekong River Starts Operation
September 8th, 2012
Via Xinhua News, a report on a new hydropower station on the Mekong River: The largest hydropower station on Lancang River in southwest China’s Yunnan Province — known as the Mekong River in southeast Asia — went into operation Thursday with its first power generating unit up and running. The Nuozhadu hydroelectric station, located in […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Water-Transfer Projects “Essential”
August 30th, 2012
Courtesy of China Dialogue, another look at via an interview with Xia Jun, president of the International Water Resources Association and head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Water Resources Centre: chinadialogue: Is it correct to say that China has plenty of water, but it’s unevenly distributed? Xia Jun: Not necessarily plenty – we have […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Another Look At China’s North-South Transfer Project
August 27th, 2012
Courtesy of China Dialogue, some commentary on China’s North-South water transfer project: Tom Levitt: What do you mean by our water footprint?   Ruth Matthews: A water footprint generally breaks down into three components. The green water footprint is the water that is used by plants from rainfall that has not run-off the soil and […]
Read more »A New Course For The Brahmaputra
August 20th, 2012
Courtesy of ThirdPole.net, commentary on how policymakers must put the needs of people and ecosystems before national strategic goals in order to rethink development along the Brahmaputra River: In discussions about managing international rivers, it is generally assumed that countries sharing a river can and should work cooperatively for hydropower and, by extension, economic development. […]
Read more »Harnessing South Asia’s Rivers
August 20th, 2012
Via Third Pole.net, an interesting look at how government negotiations have failed to improve water cooperation in South Asia, but a new regulatory body that encompasses the entire Himalayan watershed may offer a way forward: Historic power outages in India this month deprived 670 million people of electricity, more than any previous global outage. These […]
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