Severe drought in northern and central China (Photo:xinhua.net)
North China has experienced since November, its most severe drought in its history. Evidenced by the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters that has increased the alert level to a maximum level (from Grade 2 to Grade 1 Emergency Response to drought), 2 days ago. (more…)
English: ground water (pumped and treated water from an aquifer)
Chinese: 地下水
Pinyin: di4 xia4 shui3
For the World Water Day, as this day focuses on associations and organizations that work for improvment of drinking water and sanitation, here are few links that take the statement of NGOs in China in account. Like anywhere in the world, China’s NGOs care about many fields such as environment, social projects, nutrition and of course, water. Their status seems to be a little complicated, as you will read in the next linked documents. (more…)
Cheap water
From a general point of view, water price in China is seen as inadequate: it does not represent the true value of the available resources, the cost of water supply and wastewater retreatment. Until 2004, the authorities’ state of mind was that despite the severe shortage, water was too cheap to be used sparcely. Only a raised price could motivate consumers to conserve. (more…)
Here are some videos I have picked up on the Internet. All of them deal with the water pollution or water shortage in China. These are english speaking, but most of videos on China’s water will be find in chinese speaking (mainly on videos website). (more…)
The new Water China 2008 will take place from the 4th to the 7th of March, next year. This exhibition is the most important event for the water industry in China as foreign industries can explore the Chinese market and deal with domestic customers. (more…)
English : The ministry of water resources
Chinses: 水利部
Pinyin: shuǐlì bù
One year ahead the Olympics Games, the main concern of the organizing commitee (the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games) is not hight-level performances during competition or infrastructures building up on time.
“SUEZ Group expects sales in China will grow 30% this year, fueled by the nation’s growing needs for cleaner drinking water”, said Steve Clark, executive director of Sino French Water Development Co, a subsidiary of SUEZ in China. (more…)
In the northern China, 400 millions of inhabitants live with an average of 700 cubic meters of water per year. This is considered not suficient by the World Bank that sets the value of the poverty line at 1000 cubic meters. In France, the same reserve for each person is about 3300 cubic meters: the issue of insufficiency of water is not for now.