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Circle of Blue Creator Presents Bracken Lecture at Ball State University
Sarah Boswell reports for the Ball State Daily News : J. Carl Ganter is chasing a news story that’s not on anybody else’s radar — the scarcity of water in China, which could soon stifle its gross domestic product and economic success. The multimedia journalist and co-founder of Circle of Blue spoke about international issues […]
中国之瓶颈：水匮乏与能源需求
愈演愈烈的具有全球意义的资源困境
China Responds to Explosive Growth, Pollution, and Water Scarcity in Latest Five-Year Plan
Will momentum for runaway development be too powerful to restrain?
Focusing on Sustainable Growth — China Releases Draft of 12th Five-Year Plan
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.
Digital Controls Improve Energy Efficiency at Colorado River Dams: Davis, Hoover, Parker
Mechanical parts from the 1950s are being replaced with digital controls at three dams.
Center for a New American Security: China’s Water-Energy Challenge
Will Rogers of the Center for a New American Security writes: Last month, Circle of Blue reported on the cascading effect that China’s energy demand is having on water scarcity. “Underlying China’s new standing in the world is an increasingly fierce competition between energy and water that threatens to upend China’s progress,” Circle of Blue’s […]
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 […]
The Stream, March 1: What’s Choking China’s Growth?
Pollution and growing demand for resources threaten to halt China’s economic growth, according to the country’s environment minister. The unusually blunt warning comes just a few days before the start of China’s annual parliament session, which will unveil the country’s development plan for the next five years. What else is choking China’s growth — follow […]
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.
Andrew Sullivan: The Dish — China’s Water Problem
The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan highlights “Choke Point: China” in The Daily Dish. “The story has some amazing stats,” Sullivan notes.
Council on Foreign Relations: China’s Economy and the Water Crisis—A Fresh Take
Elizabeth Economy writes for the Council on Foreign Relations: While China’s economy continues to grab headlines, a new report, “Choke Point: China,” suggests that we ought to be spending a bit more time on an often-ignored economic fundamental: water. China’s environment has been a long-standing passion of mine, both as a research focus and as […]
