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Water Rights Transfers and High-Tech Power Plants Hold off Energy-Water Clash in Northern China

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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 […]

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Choke Point: China – Production Credits

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Acknowledgments Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars China Environment Forum Dr. Jennifer L. Turner, director Peter Marsters, program assistant Kexin Liu, research intern Zifei Yang, research intern Lindsey Eckelmann, research intern Sarah Henriet, research intern Circle of Blue J. Carl Ganter, managing director Senior Editor Keith Schneider Project Field Producers Aaron Jaffe Nadya Ivanova News […]

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Peter Gleick: Peak Water

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Peak water is coming. In some places, peak water is here. We’re never going to run out of water — water is a renewable natural resource (mostly). But increasingly, around the world, in the U.S., and locally, we are running up against peak water limits. The concept is so important and relevant that The New York Times chose the term “peak water” as one of its 33

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Epilogue from Steve Solomon’s Water The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

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The close of economic journalist Steven Solomon’s book is a reflection on the new meaning of water given today’s scarcity crisis. Solomon connects freshwater’s past and present to paint a future, and potentially very unstable picture of human civilization. By redefining facets of this precious resource, however, he presents the foundation of finding global solutions.