A gallery of images from Choke Point: China, about the nation’s collision between water and energy.
Underlying China’s new standing in the world, like a tectonic fault line, is the increasingly fierce competition between energy and water that threatens to upend China’s progress. According to Chinese authorities and government reports, China’s demand for energy, particularly for coal, is outpacing its freshwater supply.
Circle of Blue—in collaboration with the China Environment Forum at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars—dispatched four teams of researchers and photographers to 10 Chinese provinces during December 2010.
Photographs by Toby Smith/Reportage by Getty Images, J. Carl Ganter and Aaron Jaffe.
Ganter and Jaffe are Traverse City-based Circle of Blue photojournalists and can be reached at jcarl@circleofblue.org and aaron@circleofblue.org. Smith is a British photojournalist represented by Reportage by Getty Images who specializes in global energy and environment matters. His further work can be viewed on his website, and he can be reached at toby@shootunit.com
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