(August 16, 2010) Heavy rains and recent floods have dumped tons of garbage in the Three Gorges reservoir. Local reports say that in some places, the garbage is so thick people can walk on the surface.
Images: Trash at Three Gorges
Images: Trash at Three Gorges
(August 16, 2010) Heavy rains and recent floods have dumped tons of garbage in the Three Gorges reservoir. Local reports say that in some places, the garbage is so thick people can walk on the surface. All photos courtesy of China Digital Times. View the original photos here.
Diversion won’t end water crisis, report says
(August 16, 2010) Massive infrastructure projects are not a viable solution to China’s water crisis, writes Toh Han Shih in the South China Morning Post.
This is not Karma
(August 14, 2010) Paul Stewart, writing in Mouth to Source, details the poor development decisions that worsened the recent landslides in Zhouqu, China.
Worries related to China’s “Going Out”
Wu Aoqi Business Watch Magazine Friday, August 13, 2010 This article was originally published in Business Watch Magazine on April 5, 2010. You can read the original, in Chinese, here. Note: The […]
Car washers clean Beijing dry
(August 13, 2010) Beijing car washers are driving China’s water-strapped capital to a dry end faster, says Lisa Peryman.
Mekong River in danger of becoming ‘Chinese river’
(August 13, 2010) A report from Deutsche Presse-Agentur says the US-based Stimson Centre has warned the Mekong River may be turned into a “Chinese river.”
Chinese officials knew land use policies could create deadly landslide
(August 12, 2010) Brady Yauch writes that recent evidence shows poor policy decisions may be to blame for a deadly landslide in China’s northwestern Gansu province.
China learning how to play the foreign aid game
(Aug. 10) China has learned how to be both receiver and giver of foreign aid, writes Brady Yauch.
Critics say China’s landslides are man-made
(August 10, 2010) More critics say the poor planning policies in China are behind a rise in geological disasters.
Tackling the growing problem of sedimentation
(August 9, 2010) Worldwide experts will convene in South Africa in September 2010. At the top of their agenda is the growing problem of river sedimentation. Professor Gerrit Basson explains why tackling this issue is of great importance to the dams industry.
Defunct tax system harms Pakistan’s poor
(Aug. 6) Global Envision’s Lila Wade argues that Pakistan’s broken tax system is making poverty worse in the country.
China’s water schemes beginning to resemble a house of mirrors
(August 5, 2010) As Beijing’s water crisis continues to worsen, officials are forging ahead with a number of controversial water diversion projects to remedy the problem, writes Brady Yauch.
Livelihoods Dammed
(August 5, 2010) Stephanie Lam and Kristina Skorbach write that as many as 472 million people may be at risk from dams.ust
Floods in northern China collapse reservoirs
(August 04, 2010) BEIJING — Heavy rains hindered efforts by workers to repair reservoirs and place sandbags along breached riverbanks Wednesday as the death toll from China’s worst flooding in a decade climbed above 1,000.
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