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Water Infrastructure The United States spends just 2 percent of its gross domestic product on water infrastructure, while China spends 7 percent and India spends 5 percent, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bloomberg News reported. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the U.S. needs to spend $US 384 billion by 2030 […]
Pollution The Chinese government has released a plan to reduce coal’s share of the country’s energy supply to 65 percent by 2017, AlertNet reported. The plan is meant to curb air pollution, but could also affect water supplies that are used in the mining and burning of coal. Levels of radioactive tritium are once again […]
Though methane hydrate, a newly discovered unconventional natural gas reserve, is seen as an alternative to coal-fueled power, the technology for tapping deepwater supplies is not yet viable.
Floods More than 26,000 hectares of farmland were covered by floodwaters and 300 households were evacuated Monday in China’s northeast Heilongjiang province, Xinhua reported in this photo slideshow. The flooding is the worst the region has seen in a century. Flooding in Sudan during the past month has also displaced families, with more than 530,000 […]
In the fifth round of India-China Strategic Dialogue, India pressed for an inter-governmental body to deal with water issues between the two nations, only to be met with a “less than enthusiastic” response from China, The Economic Times reported. Concerned over its neighbor’s ongoing dam production, India hopes for greater cooperation in the use of trans-border […]
A Chinese researcher reveals massive groundwater use at a coal-to-liquids plant in dry Inner Mongolia. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue Qingwei Sun, former Greenpeace campaigner, and lead author of Thirsty Coal, a two-part report on the rising water demands of China’s largest energy sector. Click to see an enlarged image. BEIJING — […]
Circle of Blue’s Keith Schneider reports from Beijing on discussions about China’s resource challenge. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue A team of American and Chinese water and energy specialists met in Beijing with the environmental scientists and sustainability experts of the Development Research Center of the State Council, the government research group […]
Pollution China plans to invest $US 81.5 million by 2020 to document and mitigate groundwater pollution, Nature reported. The plan is in response to a 6-year survey of groundwater in the North China Plain that found serious levels of pollution from sources such as fertilizers and industrial waste. Climate Change The world has been warming […]
Water management will be the most limiting factor for China’s shale gas development, a consulting group confirmed. While water flows might be abundant, Bloomberg reported, the necessary clean water is harder to find. Read Circle of Blue’s 2012 coverage of water’s potential limits on shale gas development in China here. Pollution In Minnesota, federal regulators […]
The Chinese government recently decided to construct five new dams on rivers flowing to neighboring countries – effectively negating the bilateral water treaties that its neighbors agreed upon. Professor and commentator Brahma Chellaney argues in The Washington Times concerns about water wars and biodiversity disruption follow the decision Pacific Islands A freshwater shortage in the […]
The first phase of China’s South-North Water Transfer Project will be completed this month. Harvard University research fellow Scott Moore argues in The New York Times that despite the project’s unparalleled engineering achievement, it cannot increase supply enough to alleviate China’s overall supply woes. Read Circle of Blue’s coverage of the North-South Transfer Project here. […]
A Bloomberg New Energy Finance report is the latest to predict severe water-related challenges for China’s coal-production sector. Sixty percent of China’s power plants are in the north, GigaOm reported, relying on only 20 percent of the country’s freshwater reserves. That spells trouble for power companies as they face financial losses from the Chinese government’s […]
