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Bohai Sea Pipeline Could Open China’s Northern Coal Fields

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Disputed project seen as a must for modernization.

Harvard Students Win Urban Water Design Challenge for Interactive Water Footprint Infographic

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Three weeks, 36 entries: Global competition sponsored by Circle of Blue and Visualizing.org.

2011 Stockholm Water Prize Awarded to Stephen Carpenter — American Professor Working On Lake Ecosystems

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University of Wisconsin-Madison professor earns global recognition.

James Workman: Boycott World Water Day!

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Set aside warm and fuzzy emotion, and use cold logic to revalue our matrix of life.

Surge of New Dams in Southwest China Produces Power and Public Ire

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Water-rich region, though, is getting dryer.
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China Responds to Explosive Growth, Pollution, and Water Scarcity in Latest Five-Year Plan

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Will momentum for runaway development be too powerful to restrain?
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Focusing on Sustainable Growth — China Releases Draft of 12th Five-Year Plan

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Clearly wary about the consequences of its rapid economic development on the environment, China has set a path over the next five years to reduce consumption of the two most important resources that power its economy— coal and water. The country plans to rein in water use and introduces new energy intensity reduction targets in pursuit of more sustainable economic growth, according to the draft proposal of the 12th Five-Year Plan, the master economic blueprint that will chart China’s development through 2015.
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Infographic: China’s Water Governance Bureaucracy and Water Legislation Timeline

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Demystifying China's governmental water offices and water-related…
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Water Rights Transfers and High-Tech Power Plants Hold off Energy-Water Clash in Northern China

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Along the Yellow River, China acts on looming crisis with ambitious…
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Infographic: Map of Water Allocations in China’s Yellow River Basin

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Water allocations for the Yellow River Basin's nine provinces. A…

A Dry and Anxious North Awaits China’s Giant, Unproven Water Transport Scheme

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Authorities anticipate approval for new western line to tap energy reserves. Sparks and the blue flare of arc welders, like hot stars in the night sky, illuminate the interior of a massive water tunnel that crosses underneath the Yellow River.
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Infographic: China’s South-North Water Transfer Project

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Authorities close to the central government say the western line will be built.