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On the Tibetan Plateau, where a whim of nature created the highest points on Earth, many of the world’s major rivers are born. Each day their flows bring life to more than a billion people downstream in Asia, the planet’s most populous region. As we watch the headlines in an age of shifting water supplies, […]
Nations make tradeoffs to feed ever-increasing energy needs By C.T. Pope Circle of Blue With fuel prices still on the rise, President Bush held a press conference on Tuesday to call for an increase in U.S. biofuel production in order to mitigate the country’s dependence on foreign oil. “[T]he high price of gasoline is going […]
BEIJING – A drought in China’s northeast Liaoning Province has left nearly 700,000 people without drinking water. Rainfall in the first three months of 2008 tumbled to one-fifth levels last year. The area is a top grain producer, and maize and rice farming is due to begin next week, but from January to the end […]
BEIJING – A drought in China’s northeast Liaoning Province has left nearly 700,000 people without drinking water. Rainfall in the first three months of 2008 tumbled to one-fifth levels last year. The area is a top grain producer, and maize and rice farming is due to begin next week, but from January to the end […]
Water shortages are on the rise, from Mexico to the Andes, northern China to southern India, and Spain to Pakistan. Drought, soaring populations and population densities, changing diets, and increasing living standards are all factors. Is this an issue that technology can fix? Judging by investors’ responses, technology can at least mitigate the problem. Read […]
Water shortages are on the rise, from Mexico to the Andes, northern China to southern India, and Spain to Pakistan. Drought, soaring populations and population densities, changing diets, and increasing living standards are all factors. Is this an issue that technology can fix? Judging by investors’ responses, technology can at least mitigate the problem. Read […]
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG — More than half of the water in China, the world’s fourth-largest economy, is unfit to drink. Last year, around 48 million people living there lacked sufficient drinking water. Read More here. Source : Reuters
The Lohasian features a Reuters video on the continuing criticism of China’s environmental record, which has been under increased scrutiny with the upcoming Beijing Olympics. The latest story making international news is Beijing’s siphoning off water at the expense of a neigboring province to ensure that the Olympics will be green and tourists will be […]
The newest book by respected international photojournalist Palani Mohan, Vanishing Giants — Elephants of Asia, is a collection of extraordinary images that provoke, intrigue and enthrall. Mohan devoted 6 years and traveled to 11 Asian countries to create this intimate glimpse into the world of the Asian elephant, a creature which — even as its […]
According to a Canadian Broadcasting Company series on the privatization of water, “In the past ten years, three giant global corporations have quietly assumed control over the water supplied to almost 300 million people in every continent of the world.” This is mainly happening in Asia, Latin America and Africa now, but plans are underway […]
China has basically completed a water diversion canal that will provide emergency supplies to Beijing, the Beijing Morning News reported on Wednesday. Read more here.
Water pollution from homemade fertilizer affected the drinking water of 9,000 people in two towns in southwest China’s Yunnan province last week and killed 20 tons of fish in a fishery, officials said on Tuesday.Read more here.
