Down and Drought: Billions Needed to Rescue China’s Agriculture
China has not seen weather this dry in 50 years.
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Water Management is a Money Issue, World Bank tells China
In a recently released report, the World Bank applauds China for recognizing its impending water scarcity crisis. It also suggests a series of solutions the nation should consider to improve the quality and availability of the resource. Among them, the Bank suggests that China’s problems might be solved through raising prices for water. According to […]
Going against the Flow: India, Bangladesh worry China may Divert Water from Tibet
Downstream worries about the environment, agriculture and politics.
Toxic Yellow River Intensifies ‘China’s Sorrow’
BEIJING — One third of China’s Yellow River is now poisonous to drink, new data reveals. The Yellow River Conservancy Committee, in its release of a 2007 survey, reports that only 16.1 percent of the water is potable. This is a disturbing statistic, reports the Associated Press, for a river that hydrates millions of people […]
China tolerates news of public dissent over polluted water
BEIJING – Residents of Xingquan, a small community in southwest China, rioted against workers of a cement factory. Rioters claimed the factory was polluting their waters, reported Reuters. After being shut down for pollution elsewhere, Gaoyuan Building Materials Company allegedly moved tainted equipment nearer the rioters’ village. Although over 300 people participated in the riot, […]
China considers engineering rain for Olympic parade
BEIJING – With the Olympics almost underway, Chinese officials are worried that inclement weather could precipitate calamity. And they may use science to conjure benevolent skies. In order to prevent rain, Reuters reports, organizers are considering using technology like cloud seeding to encourage precipitation in the city’s outskirts and also to alter raindrop size. Read […]
Up the Yangtze depicts social complexity of China’s Three Gorges Dam
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan – In time for the Beijing Olympics, Up the Yangtze documents a journey into the heart of the Chinese Dream. With her family on the verge of becoming environmental refugees, Yu Shui departs to work for the opportunistic tourism company, Farewell Cruises, on the quickly changing Yangtze River. A strikingly personal vignette […]
China: Chemical spill threatens water
BEIJING – A truck has overturned and spilt a powerful chemical into a river in southwestern China, threatening the drinking water of more than 200,000 people, the official Xinhua agency said on Monday. The truck was carrying 33.6 metric tons of crude phenol, which in its diluted form can be used as a disinfectant or […]
China plans mass exodus from quake zone
MIANYANG, China – Chinese authorities have begun evacuating an additional 40,000 people in Beichuan county in the wake of potential flooding, CNN reports. While the total number of evacuees now stands at around 200,000, the number could rise to as much as 1.3 million in the event of mass flooding from that lakes that formed […]
China working to clean water after quake
BEIJING – China has still to recover 15 hazardous radioactive sources and must focus on the fight to keep drinking water clean and contain chemical spills after May 12’s massive earthquake, a senior official said on Friday. But Wu Xiaoqing, vice environment minister, insisted the situation was under control after experts and equipment were drafted […]
China “quake lake” could force 1.3 million people to evacuate
BEICHUAN, China – New fears about the lakes formed after the quake have prompted Chinese officials to evacuate nearly 150,000 people from the town and county of Beichuan in Sichuan province. While the death toll from the quake has been officially revised to 67,183, up to 1.3 million people may have to be evacuated from […]
Heckmann goes global with China Water
NEW YORK, NY – In a bid to gain a foothold in the global water industry, Heckmann Corp. will buy up China Water and Drinks Inc., which distributes and bottles water in China. Heckmann, a blank check company in the development stage, purchased the company in a $625 million cash and stock deal. Heckmann plans […]
