The China parts of this installment are especially worth reading. For example: "‘You can’t reconcile targets for coal production in, say, Shanxi province and Inner Mongolia with their water targets.’ Coal industries and power stations use as much as 17% of China’s water, and almost all of the collieries are in the vast energy basin in the north that is also one of the country’s driest regions. By 2020 the government plans to boost coal-fired power by twice the total generating capacity of India. About half of China’s rivers have dried up since 1990 and those that remain are mostly contaminated. Without enough water, coal can’t be mined, new power stations can’t run and the economy can’t grow. At least 80% of the nation’s coal comes from regions where the United Nations says water supplies are either ‘stressed’ or in ‘absolute scarcity.’”"
Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:07:08 +0000
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