Tag: China
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Mines exporting to China threaten Arizona’s water
Photo: Manganese rock on a conveyor belt. (Deposit Photos) This last year, the Arizona government repeatedly received favorable national attention for positive conservation actions: protecting the state’s scarce groundwater supplies from foreign-owned farms that repeatedly violated laws or over-pumped declining aquifers. Last December, Gov. Katie Hobbs was lauded for terminating the leases of state-owned land,…
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The Linked Ecological Futures Of America And China
Image: Flora Weil for Noema Magazine When one country’s desert forms another’s rain, then one’s dream is another’s peril. In the 1860s, a restless young adventurer named Jack Swilling spent years in the unforgiving American Southwest engaged in one of the country’s favorite pastimes: running from his past and trying to get rich. After years…
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World Water Day: Must-Watch Documentaries
From Kenyan water women, to Iran’s drought crisis and a polluted paradise: our picks for World Water Day, and every day. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal clearly states the goal of "water for all by 2030". However, access to safe and clean water sources and sanitisation is still a work in progress for numerous…
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Green water-purification system works without heavy metals or corrosive chemicals
This photo shows a concentrator where samples were placed. Credit: Dan Wang Scientists at the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Yangzhou University (YZU) in Jiangsu have developed an effective and energy-efficient technique for purifying water by using graphitic carbon nitride sheets. Their prototype, presented February 7…
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Global coal industry using as much water as a billion people each year
We already know that coal-fired power plants are bad for the planet, but that’s usually because we are just thinking about the enormous amounts of carbon dioxide emissions they contribute to our atmosphere. A new Greenpeace report entitled The Great Water Grab sheds light on another terrifying aspect of the coal industry – its astronomical…
