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Beijing’s water regulations
The Miyun Reservoir happens to be the major water supply for Beijing and the county is an important ecological shield. To protect the ecology of the area, no major industrial projects have been allowed in and around the Miyun area. In addition, farmers who live upstream from the reservoir are not allowed to use chemicals and fertilizers in crop production. So says China Daily. Continue reading
Beijing off the deep end
(May 6, 2011) Beijing really is trying to turn its water dilemma around. This Circle of Blue – Reporting the Global Water Crisis spotlight looks at what action the city’s municipal government is taking to reverse the capital’s water crunch but finds, in spite of acting with speed and authority, current measures are not fast or strong enough. Zhang Junfeng, a Beijing-based engineer and environmental activist, who has been researching Beijing’s water crisis for years, tells Circle of Blue the government still doesn’t clearly recognize the true extent of its problem and seems to think that as long as the country’s GDP is growing, the capital “can just buy the water” it needs. Not realizing that without water, hoped-for growth will falter. Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural water, aquifers, asia water project, Beijing Water Crisis, China, desalination, drought, energy conservation, energy efficiency, grey water, Guanting Reservoir, hebei reservoir, hui li, industrial water use, irrigated farmland, Ma Jun, Miyun, qingdao, qinghe regenerated water plant, residential water use, sewage treatment, South-North Water Diversion Project, south-north water transfer, thirsty city, Tianjin, wastewater recycling, wastewater treatment, water efficiency, water fee, Water Recycling, water subsidies, Yangtze River, Yongding river, zhang junfeng, zou ji
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City hoping to mop up problem of waste water
(September 21, 2010) Beijing is likely to suffer from a 12th consecutive year of drought, according to local authorities and experts who warned of water shortages and called for improved water conservation. Continue reading
Water crisis forces city to dig deep
(September 10, 2010) Officials are taking what many experts say are dangerous steps to combat Beijing’s worsening water crisis, writes Li Shuang in Global Times. Continue reading
Posted in Beijing Water, Chinese Environmentalists
Tagged Beijing Water, Beijing's water crisis, Miyun, Wang Jian
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Running Short of Water, Beijing Looks for Help
(July 31, 2010) Officials in Beijing are once again looking to neighbouring provinces for help in dealing with the capital city’s worsening water crisis, writes the Epoch Times. Continue reading
Posted in Beijing Water, Chinese Environmentalists
Tagged Beijing Water, conservation, Guanting, Miyun, pollution, Wang Jian
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Thirsts quenched in water supply record
(July 7, 2010) As much as 2.86 million cubic meters of water, virtually the pipe limit, was pumped into Beijing on Monday, the largest single-day usage since tap water was brought into operation in 1910. Continue reading
Beijing’s water crisis unabated, neighbours pay the price
(July 20, 2010) Toronto / Beijing: Beijing’s water crisis remains unabated says a new report tracking where water to China’s capital city is sourced from. Continue reading
Before the crisis: When Beijing was rich with water
(July 16, 2010) In “Daxing County’s Water Gone Forever,” the eleventh in a series of oral histories produced by a team of investigative environmental historians and water experts in Beijing and led by China’s prize-winning journalist Dai Qing and Probe International, Li Zhenwe, a former engineer at the water bureau in the Beijing’s southern Daxing County talks about his childhood in one of the county villages where annual floods and a surfeit of water were once an integral part of village life. Continue reading
