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Xilinhot Slideshow

Xilinhot—an Inner Mongolian outpost of 177,000 residents, separated from Beijing by a 12-hour train ride—is at the center of the Xilin Gol Grassland, one of China’s largest prairies and livestock production regions. The north’s coal mines, trucks, and power plants of Inner Mongolia are representative of the nation’s coal dependency, a lifeline with an insatiable thirst for water.

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Beijing Slideshow

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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China Water & Energy Slideshow

Images from northern China, where a proposed pipeline could be the answer to a resource mismatch of coal wealth and water poverty.

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New industries invest in repairing irrigation canals in exchange for the right to use Yellow River water.

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Taken together, the three lines are an audacious strategy to solve the increasingly dire confrontation between rising energy demand in a nation that is steadily getting drier.

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Clean alternatives help, but not nearly enough, to loosen energy-water choke point.

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An escalating confrontation over resources with global implications.

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A gallery of images from Choke Point: China, about the nation’s collision between water and energy.

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Singapore Water Independence © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue

Singapore is first to bottle wastewater for drinking.

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Circle of Blue speaks with residents facing the potential environmental and health consequences of an expanding Marathon Oil Corp. refinery in Detroit.

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