http://bluechinablog.com News & Thoughts about the water industry and the environment in China Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:24:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://bluechinablog.com/index.php/articles/the-chinese-water-in-videos/ http://bluechinablog.com/index.php/articles/the-chinese-water-in-videos/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:39:13 +0000 Emi http://www.bluechinablog.com/index.php/articles/the-chinese-water-in-videos/ 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). In generally, the thema focuses on shortage and pollution problems. This is probaby due to the Government’s efforts to inform populations (especially the urban one) about limited resources and how to save water.

• China’s water challenges

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZzlwH0IynZ0
  Source : www.erenlai.com
  This video is bad quality. It recalls well-konwn warning figures (“20% of world population but only 7% of the world water resouces”) and consequences of a bad water resources management.

• Water pollution in China

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=ulPowcxwxS8
  Source: www.caijing.com.cn
  This video presents a magazine exposing water pollution and the several crisis that occured the few past years (Taihu Lake, …). Commentaries are in mandarin..

• China’s water Challenge (22 :45)

  Source : Steven Griffiths (writter and producer)
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=1EfKHzPksUc part 1 – English Version
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=l8Gh88VkmfI part2 – EV
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=H06zbFVYs8Q part3 – EV
  This video is a classic document talking about water management and water resources (rivers basin, waterways…) and their issues. Commentaries are in english but the mandarine version is available (OVER english one) at:
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xwq0Jl7Zjj0
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=4m6nHLUMo8w
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=tKxwuLVrSiM

• Water crisis, Wuxi, China 无锡水祸

  Source: unknown
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=E9YJXm1kqk4
  This video is a short environmentalist message, warning about the crisis the Taihu lake faced on June this year.

• 民視新聞,家庭廢水的污染

  Source : the broadcast TV (unidentified name)
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=8RAeOZKeNTo
  This broadcast briefly explains where wastewater comes from and its effects on the rivers system in Taiwan.

• Thirsty planet/China’s boom creating water woes (3:41)

  Source : msnbc.com
  http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&brand=msnbc&vid=1c68701c-2b92-42c0-9a64-5998e67fdd9c
  A short video about Mekong river and its probably run-dry state, due to the 12 chinese dams project. Bad management of the Mekong river flood has lead to a decrease in the fish populations donwstream.

• Choking on growth – Sending water north (7:48)

  Source: new York times
  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/09/28/world/asia/choking_on_growth_2.html#story3
  This video belongs to the second part from a serie of articles examining China’s pollution crisis. It talks about the south to north water divert project and shortly expose hopes and issues.

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