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The Thirsty Dragon: The Shrinking Depths Below
March 19th, 2012
Via China Dialogue, a report on the threats to underground water supplies in China’s arid north: Water stress in northern China is driving some of the biggest engineering projects in human history: pipelines to transfer billions of cubic metres of water from south to north, desalination plants to supply the east coast, proposals to pump […]
Read more »Asian Water Cooperation
March 16th, 2012
Via China Daily, a report on a new ministerial-level cooperative mechanism between China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea aimed at tackling water problems. As the article notes: “…The three countries signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on the Mechanism of Ministerial Meeting at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseilles, France, to deepen the coordination […]
Read more »The Water Sector In China
March 16th, 2012
Courtesy of EarthPM, a look at water crisis in China: We’d like to start you off here with some statistics about China. And H2O. China accounts for 30% of the world’s population but has only 7% of the world’s freshwater supply. Since 2008, China has added more than 50 million people. Stop for a moment […]
Read more »Are We Running Out of Water?
March 16th, 2012
Courtesy of National Geographic, a look at the question of whether the world is running out of water: A dry river near Darcha in India. Ankit Solanki, Flickr Creative Commons Early in 2001, the Rio Grande River failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico for the first time. With that nefarious event the Rio Grande […]
Read more »Dam(n) It: The World’s Most Contentious Dam Projects
March 16th, 2012
Via The Guardian, a look at some of the world’s most contentious dam projects: South-east Asia’s Mekong dam Laos hopes to built a 1,285 megawatt hydroelectric plant at Xayaburi that would supply Thailand with electricity and open the door to a host of other proposed dams on the Mekong. But until now its plans have […]
Read more »Global Water Resources Pushed to the Brink
March 1st, 2012
Via The Environmental Leader, a report on how a global population of seven billion people will push water resources to the brink, unless agriculture and industry act fast to cut demand: Water use could reach 8,680,000,000,000 cubic meters this year. A study warned in 2009 that global water requirements would grow to 6,900 billion m3 by […]
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