China’s Looming Conflict Between Energy and Water

Yale Environment 360: In its quest to find new sources of energy, China is increasingly looking to its western provinces. But the nation's push to develop fossil fuel and alternative sources has so far ignored a basic fact -- western China simply lacks the water resources needed to support major new energy development. If you were to fly over the great continental expanse of China at night, you would find clusters of bright lights hugging near the eastern coast -- sprawling, populous cities such as Beijing, Tianjin,...

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