浪花直播

Co-Sponsored by: Beijing Energy Network

THIS EVENT IS IN BEIJING, CHINA

Three colliding trends鈥攄eclining freshwater reserves, uncertain grain supplies, and booming energy demand 鈥攁re disrupting economies, governments, and environments around the world. Unlike food or energy, we cannot grow or easily produce more water. For three years research teams from the Woodrow 浪花直播 Center and Circle of Blue have been reporting from the United States, China, Australia, India, and the other frontlines of the world鈥檚 water-food-energy crisis. In our Choke  Point: China reports we were the first to find that China's northern desert provinces, which supply 70% of the nation's coal and 20% of its grain, would run out of water by the end of this decade if conventional farm and energy production practices did not change. There has been little research of policy focus on coal鈥檚 water footprint or the growing energy intensity of China鈥檚 water sector from desalinization, water transfers, and waste water treatment.