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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- May 23, 2013
- Updated: 5:16pm
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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...
The central government will spend four trillion yuan (HK$4.7 trillion) in the next 10 years to rebuild outdated water conservancy projects and improve water-use efficiency on the mainland as...
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.
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...
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...
Just over two years ago, residents of the lakeside city of Wuxi flooded the city's supermarkets in search of bottled water.
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...
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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Managers of Discovery Bay are proposing an overhaul of its water pipes system after technicians took five days to repair a burst main.
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