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.
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The Stream, April 26: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Food has quickly become the hidden driver of world politics, Foreign Policy writes, and the world is losing its ability to soften the effect of its resource shortages. How do food, energy, population and water policies fit the big puzzle? Saudi Arabia, one of the countries most at risk of water and grain shortages, has […]
The Stream, April 22: Water Pollution Accidents
China’s water sector, the world’s third largest, with an estimated value of $48 billion, is attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in investments from multinational and domestic firms, a Reuters analysis says. More than half of China’s water needs treatment before it can be used in households, farming or industrial operations. Pumping From the Red […]
The Stream, April 18: The Water Factor
Environmental groups are up in arms over the State Department’s updated environmental analysis of a proposed oil pipeline project from Alberta, Canada, to Texas. The study drew similar conclusions to a draft environmental impact statement issued by the State Department last year, which said that the controversial project “would result in limited adverse environmental impacts […]
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.
Bohai Sea Pipeline Could Open China’s Northern Coal Fields
Disputed project seen as a must for modernization.
The Stream, March 30: Water and Cities
More than a billion people around the world will face severe water shortages by 2050 as a result of rapid urbanization and climate change, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. India’s six biggest cities — Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad — will be among the most […]
The Stream, March 24: India-Pakistan Water Disputes
A 330-megawatt dam under construction in the Indus River Basin has re-ignited the water tensions between India and Pakistan in the disputed region of Kashmir. The hydropower project is the first to be referred to international arbitration under the World Bank-mediated Indus Water Treaty and signals an escalation in the Indo-Pakistani race to secure priority […]
The Stream, March 23: World Water Ranking
Mauritania, Kuwait and Jordan are the most water-stressed countries in the world, according to a new water ranking by a British risk analysis group. In its review of 160 countries around the globe, the company also notes that Sweden, Guyana, Canada and Russia have the most secure supplies. Meanwhile, Kuwait announced that it plans to […]
Surge of New Dams in Southwest China Produces Power and Public Ire
Water-rich region, though, is getting dryer.
Infographic: Successes and Failures of China’s Five-Year Plans (1996 -2010)
A breakdown of previous plans gives context to the newly released 12th Five-Year Plan.
