The Thirsty Dragon: Water Scarcity And Social Equality In China
May 23rd, 2013
Via The Diplomat, an interesting look at China’s efforts to prevent a water crisis: Over the last couple months, China has had record-breaking problems with pollution. This past January, Beijing’s air pollution (PM 2.5) readings reached 886µg/m3, far surpassing the Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization’s standards for acceptable air quality. In fact, [...]
Read more »The Parched Tiger And Thirsty Dragon: India And China Ink Agreements On Water Resources
May 22nd, 2013
Via The Times of India, an article on some new agreements aimed at enhancing cooperation between India and China over water: Weeks after the flare-up on the border issue, India and China on Monday sought to further improve their bilateral relations and firmed up eight agreements to enhance cooperation in a range of areas including [...]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Water-Trading Could China’s Exacerbate Water Shortages
May 20th, 2013
Via China Dialogue, a report on how China’s approaches to water trading grapple with the twin problems of ensuring equity of supply and avoiding ecological damage: Poor smallholders are likely to lose out to manufacturing in a water trading system, warn skeptics Large-scale engineering projects and rigorous state control are hallmarks of the Chinese developmental [...]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: High And Dry – Water Shortages Put A Brake On China’s Economic Growth
May 20th, 2013
Via The Financial Times, a look at the impact of water scarcity on China’s economic growth: Holed beneath the waterline: China’s droughts and water shortages are pushing people to leave their homes and join an exodus to the cities Wang Fuguo, a 63-year-old cotton farmer, does not know when his ancestors began tilling the land [...]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: 28,000 Rivers Disappeared In China … What Happened?
May 9th, 2013
Via The Atlantic, another look at China’s ‘lost’ rivers: As recently as 20 years ago, there were an estimated 50,000 rivers in China, each covering a flow area of at least 60 square miles. But now, according to China’s First National Census of Water, more than 28,000 of these rivers are missing. To put this [...]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Plans to Harness Chinese River’s Power Threaten a Region
May 5th, 2013
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on the impact of China’s plan to build a series of dams on the Nu River: From its crystalline beginnings as a rivulet seeping from a glacier on the Tibetan Himalayas to its broad, muddy amble through the jungles of Myanmar, the Nu River is one of [...]
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