Wild Pigeon, Excerpt | Pool Hall
on April 15, 2015
A pool hall in Darya Boye, a riverside village in the Taklamakan desert, 2008.
Wild Pigeon, Excerpt | Tarim Lake Ponds
on April 15, 2015
Uighurs visiting the ponds that are the remains of the once 10,000-square-kilometer Tarim Lake, 2009.
Wild Pigeon, Excerpt | Apartment Complex
on April 15, 2015
An apartment complex in Kashgar for Uighurs displaced by development projects, 2009.
BMW China Dealers Press Auto Maker for More Financial Support
on April 15, 2015
In letter to German luxury car maker, dealers call on BMW to set more realistic sales targets.
China’s Biggest Chip Maker’s Possible Tie-Up With H-P Values Unit at Up to $5 Billion
on April 15, 2015
Tsinghua Unigroup in talks to buy a controlling stake in Hewlett-Packard unit H3C Technologies.
Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia?
on April 15, 2015
It's unclear how she would manage two of America's most important and complex relationships.
China’s G.D.P. Slows to 7 Percent, the Weakest Rate Since 2009
on April 15, 2015
Wild Pigeon
on April 15, 2015
“The underlying theme I heard when talking to people was that how you interpret things is how they will be, so its best to look at the bright side of things. You don’t mention bad dreams, or you try to interpret them in a positive way. People told me dreams about drowning in a river, picking fruit, burning flags, speaking to ancestors.”
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Towards A Water & Energy Secure China
Tough Choices Ahead in Power Expansion with Limited Water Resources
on April 15, 2015
China’s waterscape is changing. Water risks in China, be they physical, economic or regulatory, have great social-economic impacts and are well recognized, especially those in China’s water-energy nexus. Today, 93 percent of power generation in China is water-reliant. In short, no water = no power and vice versa as we require power to clean, transport, and distribute water.
With 85 percent of China’s electricity consumption, industry faces a double whammy—direct exposure to water scarcity and pollution, and indirect exposure through its use of water-reliant power. There are serious implications for business and investors.
Water also increasingly is interlinked with climate issues and divergent trends in water use and resources indicate a thirstier future. Against this backdrop, China is still hungry for thirsty power with plans to grow its economy as its population continues to urbanize. Indeed, China’s per capita power generation installed capacity is still far below that of the G20 average. By 2020, China could add up to 2TW of installed capacity—that is more than the current total installed capacity of the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia, and Japan combined.
Can China manage this magnitude of power expansion with limited water resources?
To facilitate understanding of these challenges brought on by China’s changing waterscape, this report highlights key issues within China’s water energy nexus and summarizes the multiple strategies that will have to be adopted simultaneously across a broad spectrum of sectors into a broad three-prong approach:
- Balancing power mix by considering trade-offs among water, energy, and climate;
- Controlling water use in the agriculture, coal mining, and coal-related sectors to ensure food and energy security; and
- Curbing energy demand as saving power means saving water.
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