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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The Price of Water 2011: Prices Rise an Average of 9 Percent in Major U.S. Cities
Because of costlier inputs and infrastructure replacement, rate experts predict prices will only go higher.
The Stream, May 4: China’s Energy
The golf course market is enjoying a bonanza in China despite a government ban on the construction of new golf courses, according to the Financial Times. Learn more about the water impacts and governance challenges of China’s golf course development from this China Environment Forum presentation. Is China entering the strategic shale gas race? This […]
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.
The Stream, April 29: Natural Disasters
Southern California, Arizona and Nevada are in discussions with the Mexican government about sharing a desalination plant across the border in Mexico, Reuters reports. But some conservation groups say that the controversial plan may be taking advantage of Mexico’s lower costs and weaker regulations. Emergencies A violent tornado swept across the American South on Wednesday […]
Circle of Blue & Ball State University – Infographic Partnership
Immersive program puts advanced students in the center of “one of the decade’s biggest news, policy, and technology issues.” Video by Ball State University. MUNCIE, IN, (February 1, 2011) — A select team of Ball State University journalism students and the online global news organization Circle of Blue today announced the start of a comprehensive […]
Strong La Niña Winter Soaks Much of the Western United States, But Leaves Southwest Dry
Western states confront potential for floods and wildfires.
The Stream, April 15: Regulating the Natural Gas Industry
Cuba’s worst drought in 50 years has depleted reservoirs by about 80 percent and forced the government to deliver water in Havana with trucks, UPI reports. The Cuban capital’s water supply infrastructure is in need of a major overhaul, as 70 percent its water pipes are leaking. Shale Gas Several Democratic senators have urged the […]
The Stream, April 12: Responding to Scarcity
By Rationing In Texas Drought in Texas is forcing the state’s environmental commission to consider restricting surface water withdrawals, according to the Star-Telegram. Cities in the state’s southeast are already using emergency reserves and purchasing rights on water markets, the Galveston Daily News reports. By Suing In Oklahoma The New York Times kicks off a […]
The Stream, April 7: America’s Abandoned Gas and Oil Wells
Foreign Affairs analyzes why food subsidies have prevented and provoked revolutions in the Middle East. How did rising grain prices break the Arab world’s “democracy of bread”? America’s abandoned wells This week, ProPublica reports on the environmental impact of America’s hundreds of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells. According to studies, the wells can […]
Choke Point: China – Resources
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Australia Builds Desalination Plants and Pipelines to Bring Water to Mines
To feed water-hungry mining industries, similar plans are in the works to supply drought-ridden regions of Australia and China.
