Blue China: Water Management in China
News & Thoughts about the water industry and the environment in China



Climate change (Oct 15)
English: climate change Chinese: 气候变化 Pinyin: qìhòu biànhuà


Blog Action Day : Climate change (Oct 15)
IPCC technical report and Water and Climate Change http://www.blogactionday.org/


Rating flume (Feb 12)
Chinese: 率定槽 Pinyin: lǜ dìng cáo English: Rating flume


China is facing its worst drought in 50 years (Feb 8)
North China has experienced since November, its most severe drought in its history. Evidenced by the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters that has increased the alert level to a maximum level (from Grade 2 to Grade 1 Emergency Response to drought), 2 days ago. According to the same Office, about 9.6 million [...]


Ma Jun, an angry environmentalist in the “world factory” (Oct 21)
“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. It is while watching rivers and many other devastated landscapes that this journalist of the South China Morning Post decided in the [...]


Water Poverty Index (for the Blog Action Day) (Oct 15)
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. Where there is water shortage, there is still a kind [...]


Building owner (Oct 15)
Chinese: 建筑工程主持者 Pinyin: jiànzhù gōngchéng zhǔchízhě English: building owner


Concession (Sep 16)
Chinese: 委任权 Pinyin: wěirènquán English: concession


China Drinking Water Market Report (Sep 16)
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. “Healthy drinking water has become the world’s scarce resource. In China, water quality-induced water shortage is serious. With the improvement of people’s living standards, sales of drinking [...]


Local goverment/state control, [regie] (Aug 29)
Chinese: 政府经办 Pinyin: zhèngfǔ jīngbàn English: Regie control