Circle of Blue design intern Laura Stegmeyer reflects on her first week.
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Energy companies should provide better data on fracking water use, and investors should push for quantifiable water targets, according to a sustainable investing advocacy group.
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Though groundwater gets most of the attention, rivers are also affected by the rush of shale gas development across the United States, according to a new study that claims both wastewater and well development degrade water quality, but in different ways.
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Pollution is a major driver of water scarcity in China, especially in the places where economic growth is the highest and water resources are under the most stress — China’s dry northern breadbaskets and its biggest manufacturing hubs in the south and east.
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Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, faces multiple challenges for sustaining its water supply.
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Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, races to meet rising demand for energy.
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Despite a new route, farmers still worry about groundwater contamination and property rights.
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Best-in-class reporting on the confrontation between water, food, and energy that influenced policy making in Asia, proved invaluable to university researchers in Europe, and informed citizens and the media in the United States and around the world.
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The recent oil and gas boom in the United States has been good business for the Carlsbad, New Mexico water department. Perhaps too good.
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Free power, water, fertilizer, and chemicals encourages abuse of resources for world’s number two rice and wheat producer.
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Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, has shifted its bread baskets to the north.
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China’s deep shale reserves are treacherous to tap and slow to develop.
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The northeast region of China, including Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin provinces, is among the world’s most important breadbaskets.
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Choke Point: China is an on-the-ground report that displays in text, photographs, and interactive graphics the powerful evidence of a potentially ruinous confrontation between growth, water, and energy that is already visible across China; a confrontation that is virtually certain to grow more dire over the next decade.
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Rich land, ample water, and human persistence have turned virgin prairie into the primary breadbasket for China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy that is pursuing grain production with a single-minded purpose.
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New project finds that building the world’s fastest-growing economy risks public safety and tests global resource limits.
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Back from China, Circle of Blue’s senior editor notices a trend creeping from our headlines to those of other news organizations around the world.
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Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2013
It is time we just said “no.”