Features
04.22.16
Drinking the Northwest Wind
Like so many of Mao’s pronouncements, it sounded simple. “The South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little...
Drinking the Northwest Wind
Like so many of Mao’s pronouncements, it sounded simple. “The South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little...
Environment
10.19.15
Can the South-North Water Transfer Project and Industry Co-Exist?
from chinadialogueSixty-two years after Chairman Mao first envisioned the South-North Water Transfer project, the Middle Route (SNWT-MR) formally began transferring supplies of water from Danjiangkou reservoir on the border of Hubei and Henan in...
Environment
09.03.15
The Yellow River: A History of China’s Water Crisis
from chinadialogueDuring the hot, dry month of August 1992, the farmers of Baishan village in Hebei province and Panyang village in Henan came to blows. Residents from each village hurled insults and rudimentary explosives at the other across the Zhang River—the...
Cities in China’s North Resist Tapping Water Piped From South
Huge project transferring water from Yangtze River to drier regions runs into budgetary constraints.
Environment
02.26.14
South-North Water Transfer ‘Not Sustainable,’ Official Says
from chinadialogueThe $62 billion South-North Water Transfer Project would be rendered irrelevant if one-third of buildings in Beijing could collect more rainwater and recycle more wastewater, according to a Chinese ministerial official.
The remarks made...
China’s Massive Water Problem
This Spring 2013 China is expected to finish the first phase of its gigantic South-North Water Transfer Project, though the project highlights the limits of engineering solutions to problems of basic environmental scarcity....
Water-transfer Projects "Essential," Says Chinese Scientist
So the ability to move water around is essential, to distribute the water more evenly. Of course you need to work in coordination, to balance the ecological impact. But you can’t store and transfer water without dams and reservoirs, can you?
Environment
08.28.12
China’s South-North Water Transfer is “Irrational”
from chinadialogueRuth Matthews, executive director of the Water Footprint Network, tells Tom Levitt how food has come to dominate our water use and why China may need to re-think its South-North water transfer project.
Tom Levitt:...
Sinica Podcast
08.27.11
Zhao Liang and the South-North Water Diversion Project
from Sinica PodcastThis week on Sinica: China makes an about-face on Libya, we discuss a recent controversy in Beijing’s arts community over independent filmmaker Zhao Liang, and get an on-the-ground update on the state of China’s South-North Water Diversion...