{"id":114877,"date":"2023-06-13T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T06:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/as-climate-change-hits-china-weighs-new-water-megaprojects\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T09:15:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T06:15:32","slug":"as-climate-change-hits-china-weighs-new-water-megaprojects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/as-climate-change-hits-china-weighs-new-water-megaprojects\/","title":{"rendered":"As climate change hits, China weighs new water megaprojects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114877\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nAs droughts loom, China is planning ambitious new water infrastructure projects in hope that moving more of the precious liquid across the country will mitigate the impact of climate change &#8211; but experts warn more river diversions may be costly. At the end of May, officials released plans to build a national &#8220;water network&#8221; of new canals, reservoirs and storage facilities they say will boost irrigation, and cut the risk of floods and droughts.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying said the plan would &#8220;unblock the major arteries&#8221; of the river system by 2035, boosting the state&#8217;s ability to even out water supply distribution. But experts say this approach is not only expensive and environmentally disruptive, but could leave regions in the south more vulnerable to supply disruptions and require additional infrastructure to address. &#8220;What they have been doing so far is using engineering solutions to try to physically supply water and fix their water problem,&#8221; said Mark Wang, a geographer at Melbourne University who studies the impact of China&#8217;s water infrastructure. &#8220;If China can reduce water use and increase efficiency, it doesn&#8217;t need mega-diversion projects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s Ministry of Water Resources did not respond to a request for comment. Although this year&#8217;s drought is not expected to be as severe as last year&#8217;s, when months of high temperatures parched large parts of the Yangtze basin, state forecasters warn that central and southwestern China could suffer. Parts of the southwest have already imposed special measures, with a water company in Sichuan province&#8217;s Liangshan County urging residents not to shower more than four times a month. China&#8217;s per capita water resources are much lower than the world average and distribution is uneven. It has long relied on large-scale infrastructure to deliver water from the flood-prone south to the arid north and find engineering solutions to its long-term supply woes.<\/p>\n<p>Total investment in fixed water assets exceeded 1.1 trillion yuan ($154 billion) last year, up 44% compared with 2021, analysts said. It rose 15.6% to 407 billion yuan in the first quarter of 2023 and officials say even more funding will be made available. &#8220;The costs of building these enormous projects is likely to continue increasing,&#8221; said Genevieve Donnellon-May, a researcher at the Oxford Global Society who studies China&#8217;s water issues.<\/p>\n<p>China has also proposed a project to divert water from Tibet to northwest China, which has alarmed India and other countries dependent on rivers such as the Brahmaputra and the Mekong. Alternative approaches that focus on wastewater recycling, desalination or reductions in demand could prove more effective, Wang said.With about 60% of China&#8217;s water supplies used for agriculture, efficiencies could be found by switching crops or using alternative irrigation methods, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/climate-change-hits-china-weighs-new-water-megaprojects-2023-06-13\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/109222\/\">As climate change hits, China weighs new water megaprojects<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[758,10383,572,606,607,608,589],"class_list":["post-114877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-megaproject","tag-new","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}