Irrigation

Hu gives top priority to boosting water projects

11 Jul 2011

The central government wants a comprehensive water system in place by 2020 to safeguard the nation's crops and to combat future droughts and floods - like those that have taken a hefty toll on the...

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Financial gap threatens to sink Beijing's ambitious water goal

1 Apr 2011

Earlier this week, China's government announced new targets for energy and water use.

The energy target got all the attention. This year, Beijing aims to reduce the amount of energy...

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4 trillion yuan to be spent on boosting water infrastructure

31 Jan 2011

The central government will spend four trillion yuan (HK$4.7 trillion) in the next 10 years to rebuild outdated water conservancy projects and improve water-use efficiency on the mainland as...

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Drought made worse by poor planning

1 Apr 2010

A group of women squatted on the ground, sewing coarse cloth shoes and occasionally glancing at a drilling rig bumping on the dry bottom of the pond in front of them.

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Replumbing of university halts flow of money down the drain

21 Nov 2009

Normally when people finish washing their hands, the water simply goes down the drain.

But at a Hong Kong university it is being collected, treated and used for irrigation by a...

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Replacement of water pipes to be carried out urgently

2 Sep 2009

Eight sections of fresh and seawater pipes underneath Gloucester Road would be replaced earlier than scheduled, the water chief said as he apologised for Monday's burst pipe that led to traffic...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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Banking on potable water as asset class

Just over two years ago, residents of the lakeside city of Wuxi flooded the city's supermarkets in search of bottled water.

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A lonely fight for China's best irrigation hope

Qiu Weize, a former professor at the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, spent over three decades improving and introducing a Chinese version of drip-irrigation...

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Villagers blame hydropower station for parched fields

The past year has been a wasted one for 56-year-old farmer Pan Xiongshun - one of his two plots of land yielded nothing.

The disastrous losses, he said, were as much man-made as...

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Results

Today 3rd Quarter: Xinjiang Tianye Water Saving Irrigation System

Tomorrow Final: Chaoda Modern Agriculture (Holdings)

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Results

October 15 3rd Quarter: Xinjiang Tianye Water Saving Irrigation System

October 16 Final: Chaoda Modern Agriculture (Holdings)