Irrigation to Industry — Trading Water Rights in China’s Yellow River Basin
New industries invest in repairing irrigation canals in exchange for the right to use water from the Yellow River.
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Federal Water Tap, March 7: Spending Bills and Rule-Making
What About the Kitchen Sink? In February, the Republican-majority U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut $61 billion from the federal budget for the remaining seven months of fiscal year 2011. Among the cuts were a 56 percent reduction in funding for the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, which provides low-interest loans […]
Choke Point: China – Production Credits
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 […]
Choke Point: China – Production Credits – Toby Smith, Photographer
Toby Smith is an award-winning contemporary reportage photographer specializing in environment and energy matters. His time is divided between long-term personal, international editorial and contemporary works for exhibition. His feature stills and video work has been published by clients such as GEO, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, The Guardian, Fortune, TIME, New York Times, BBC and […]
Federal Water Tap, March 2: Floods, Dust and Pipelines
Healthy Forests, Healthy Waters The National Forest Service was created, in part, to safeguard the wooded areas supplying most of the nation’s drinking water. An ongoing rules review will put greater emphasis on watershed protection and restoration. On February 10, the NFS proposed a new forest planning rule, the agency’s first comprehensive rules revision since […]
The Stream, March 2: Shale Uncovered
In the next chapter of its gas drilling series, The New York Times digs even deeper into the murky side of the U.S. shale gas boom. Even when companies treat their drilling wastewater, environmental and health risks remain, in the form of salts or sludge that are highly concentrated with radioactive material and other contaminants. […]
The Stream, March 1: What’s Choking China’s Growth?
Pollution and growing demand for resources threaten to halt China’s economic growth, according to the country’s environment minister. The unusually blunt warning comes just a few days before the start of China’s annual parliament session, which will unveil the country’s development plan for the next five years. What else is choking China’s growth — follow […]
A Dry and Anxious North Awaits China’s Giant, Unproven Water Transport Scheme
Authorities anticipate approval for new western line to tap energy reserves. Sparks and the blue flare of arc welders, like hot stars in the night sky, illuminate the interior of a massive water tunnel that crosses underneath the Yellow River.
Photo Slideshow: China’s South-North Water Transfer Project
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.
The Stream, February 25: Toxic Clean-up
South Africa has pledged $168 million to clean the toxic water that threatens to spill out from derelict gold mines under Johannesburg, Reuters reports. It plans to immediately start building pumping, treatment and monitoring stations that would begin operations by March 2012, or just a few months before the acid water is expected to reach […]
The Stream, February 24: The Scale of Shale
Will Europe replicate the shale gas boom in the United States? It’s far too early to know, experts say, but exploratory drilling is already under way in Britain, Germany and Poland. Others, like France, are holding off exploration until further environmental studies. South Korea proposed a “climate vulnerability” index to judge which developing countries are […]
The Stream, February 22: Cholera and Climate
Investing 2 percent, or roughly $1.3 trillion, of the global gross domestic product in 10 sectors, including agriculture, energy, construction and fishing, could shift the world to a greener future while simultaneously expanding the global economy at its current rate, a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme says. The measures will reduce greenhouse […]
