Photo Slideshow: Beijing Water Imports and Wastewater Recycling
A gallery of images from Beijing and neighboring Hebei Province, where the capital city is importing water from farmers and fishermen.
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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.
The Stream, March 22: World Water Day 2011
The New York Times compares the water markets and policies of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin and California’s San Joaquin Valley. Will California’s farmers follow in the footsteps of their Australian counterparts, who made far-reaching changes to their water practices in response to a dire 12-year drought? Agriculture, Industry In a sobering article, the Guardian‘s John Vidal […]
China Responds to Explosive Growth, Pollution, and Water Scarcity in Latest Five-Year Plan
Will momentum for runaway development be too powerful to restrain?
Water Rights Transfers and High-Tech Power Plants Hold off Energy-Water Clash in Northern China
Along the Yellow River, China acts on looming crisis with ambitious water conservation and transfer program Photo © Aaron Jaffe/Circle of Blue Even as China builds some of the most efficient coal-fired power plants in the world, cooling them requires billions of gallons of water each year and soaring towers — like this one in […]
A Dry and Anxious North Awaits China’s Giant, Unproven Water Transport Scheme
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.
Infographic: China’s South-North Water Transfer Project
Authorities close to the central government say the western line will be built.
New Wind and Solar Sectors Won’t Solve China’s Water Scarcity
Clean alternatives help, but not nearly enough, to loosen energy-water choke point
Choke Point: China – Confronting Water Scarcity and Energy Demand in the World’s Largest Country
An escalating confrontation over resources; a confrontation with global implications.
