Infographic: Beijing Water Use and Population Statistics
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The population of China's capital has doubled since 1980, and, though agricultural and industrial water use is down, municipal use is up.
Off the Deep End — Beijing’s Water Demand Outpaces Supply Despite Conservation, Recycling, and Imports
How China's capital got in over its head, and what the city is doing to get its water crisis under control.
Event Invitation—Choke Point: Confronting Energy Demand and Water Scarcity in China
Circle of Blue and the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will give an absorbing presentation on the energy-water choke points that are tightening around the world’s two largest economies. Please RSVP for May 6, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Water Needs Curtail China’s Coal Gasification For Fuel, Yet Conversion To Chemicals Pushes Ahead
Though coal-to-liquids has been suspended due to water scarcity, the process uses 50 percent less water per unit of end product compared with coal-to-chemicals processes which have been given the go-ahead in hopes of slowing petroleum imports.
Circle of Blue’s China Tour Finds Strong Reception for Water-Energy Choke Point Warning
Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum present at 17 events in 4 cities over 16 days.
Q&A: Ma Jun on China’s Economic Development and Water Resources
Ma Jun tells Circle of Blue that China is still on the track of a highly energy- and resource-intensive model, with the need to de-couple economic growth from the expansion of resource consumption
Australia Builds Desalination Plants and Pipelines to Bring Water to Mines
To feed water-hungry mining industries, similar plans are in the works to supply drought-ridden regions of Australia and China.
Infographic: Bohai Pipeline Map — Coal Reserves vs. Water Resources in Northern China
A look at China's coal-rich, yet water-scarce northern region.
Bohai Sea Pipeline Could Open China’s Northern Coal Fields
Disputed project seen as a must for modernization.
Surge of New Dams in Southwest China Produces Power and Public Ire
Water-rich region, though, is getting dryer.