(August 2, 2010) State media says hot weather is pushing up demand for recycled water.
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.
China to move tens of thousands for huge water scheme
(June 29, 2010) The forced resettlement for the South-to-North Water Transfer Project will be the biggest China has undertaken since building the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s biggest hydroelectric scheme, said the People’s Daily.
Ensuring Water Purity
(June 17, 2010) Danjiangkou Reservoir can provide a model for China’s environment protection efforts.
Benefits of river revitalization plan questioned
(June 29, 2010) Wang Jian, a Beijing-based water specialist, traced the Yongdinghe River to its source in Ningwu County of northern China’s Shanxi Province in mid-2007, where he discovered the groundwater system had been destroyed by coal mining and soil erosion from over-farming and the felling of forest trees.
Three cities fined for water pollution
(July 5, 2010) Northwest China’s Shaanxi province has imposed a fine of 700,000 yuan, or about 103,344 US dollars, on the cities of Xi’an, Baoji and Xianyang for "environmental compensation" for their failing to meet the standard for pollutant discharge in the Wei River in.
China’s Three Gorges dam faces flood test
(July 20, 2010) The Three Gorges dam on China’s longest river, the Yangtze, is standing up to its biggest flood control test since completion last year, officials say.
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.
Beijing’s daily water supply reaches historic high
(July 7, 2010) Beijing’s daily water supply reached 2.86 million cubic meters Monday due to the hot weather, breaking a century-old record, according to the Municipal Water Group, the Legal Evening News reported.
Beijing Getting Thirsty
(July 8, 2010) ‘Dashengzhuang, in Xihongmen town in Beijing’s Daxing district, has guards at its entrance and people are only allowed in after showing a pass which includes the holder’s name, sex, ethnic background, hometown, occupation, identity card number and mobile phone number. The village is closed between 11pm and 6am.
Sweltering north China in line for relief today…
(July 8, 2010) This has been the hottest early July in 50 years for the capital city of Beijing, with the downtown temperature hitting 42.9 degrees Celsius on Monday. The extreme heat caused water and power cuts in many residential complexes, The Beijing News reported.
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.
Exodus making way for water diversion project
(June 18, 2010) As many as 540,000 people will be resettled to make way for the middle and eastern routes, China’s largest resettlement project since the Three Gorges Project, which involved the resettlement of 1.4 million people.
Water schemes tamper with nature’s design
(July 16, 2010) According to the latest issue of Century Weekly, there is a scramble to grab whatever is left of the Hanjiang River that flows through Shaanxi Province and northwest Hubei Province before it joins the Yangtze River in Wuhan, capital of Hubei.
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.
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