“To know the color of fashion in the West, just take a look at the color of Chinese rivers.”
Ma Jun, 40, reports with a cynical expression this joke circulating among environmentalists in his country. (more…)

Is poverty in a country influenced by its water resources? Do scarce water resources condemn necessarily that country? Many disclaim that a water crisis is emerging. A global crisis. But it is at local level, often the region of a country, this issue must be considered. (more…)

One of the most significant market reports on chinese water was released last month. Research and Markets Ltd. has announced its publication on August 2008.

Here is the descriptive abstract. (more…)

Since yesterday, and as each year, the Worl Water Week is held in Stockholm from the 17th to the 23th. This 2008 WWW will scrutinise progress and prospects in the efforts to build a clean and healthy world. Special attention will be devoted this year to the sanitation challenge and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal target on sanitation. August 17 - Anders Berntell, Executiv Director at the Stockholm International Water Institute (more…)

Here is a list of few on-line docs I found on the net. They show off a wide overview on issues of water management in China - and Asia. I picked them up from international institution editions as I think those organisms offer reports with overall level of informations. (more…)

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…)

The UN created the World Water Day in 1992, and since 1993, will be celebrated on the 22th of March every year. But today is the 20th, and the UN declare it as the 2008 World Water Day.
Nothing is gonna be posted for today on the subject. Just will wait til the 22th.

Green everywhere for everyone.

Who says hosting nation of the Olympic Games, says big budget. And who says drought in that country, says big issues for water supply. Except for China? Officially, yes. The authorities in charge for water management in Beijing had claimed that the Games will not suffer from a lack of water. “Water demand during the 2008 Olympics will be guaranteed,” said Wu Jisong, director of the water supply program under the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, in 2006. And for good reasons. (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…)

China needs power, electric power to feed its growth. The solution? To build a huge dam on the Yangzi (Chang Jiang), the most powerful river in China and the 3rd longest one in the world. But the river was not harnessed only for its hydropower: the building of a dam will also help to control floodings that Hubei has been sustaining every season for centuries. (more…)