The following links are for those interested in learning more about the severity and ramifications of China’s water shortages. Sourced materials include economic and geopolitical analysis of the issue from the perspective of policy makers, journalists, and leading academics.
There’s no scarcity of reasons why your holiday shipments may not arrive on time. COVID-19 disruptions, congested ports, semiconductor shortages, stretched trucking capacity — the list goes on and on…
China is touting its renewable energy investments and has vowed to “accelerate the pace of coal reduction” in coming years. Yet in practice the country continues doubling down on coal on the back of blackouts…
Nature and geopolitics can interact in nasty ways. The historian Geoffrey Parker has argued that changing weather patterns drove war, revolution and upheaval during a long global crisis in the 17th century…
There is an understandable tendency to view global actions by the People’s Republic of China as the natural expression of the strength and confidence of the Communist regime in Beijing…
Life is difficult, if not impossible, without consistent access to clean water. Yet unfortunately, too many societies around the world face life without it, a bleak reality that for many threatens to become worse during this century. Swiftly rising global demand for water, increasingly tight supplies…
In early December, hydraulic engineering professor Huang Guoru read a surprising notice from his school. The South China University of Technology’s logistics office told staff and students to prepare for unannounced water supply cuts…
China’s major southern cities Guangzhou and Shenzhen have warned of severe water shortages lasting into next spring as the East River, a tributary of Guangdong’s Pearl River, continues to be hit by its most severe drought in decades…
Chinese officials have announced plans to start stockpiling grains in an effort to provide the country more food security. China claims it wishes to build its corn reserves to total 70% of the global reserves. For wheat the country wants…
An informative, 20 minute video overview of China’s water challenges.
How China manages its water resources over the next five to seven years has profound implications not only for the Chinese people but also for the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Within China, water supplies—already scarce…