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Rising Tide: Dissent Slows China's Drive for Massive Dam Projects
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119802214926737977.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Local Critics Scuttle Hydropower Plants; The Right to Say 'No' DUJIANGYAN, China — Around 250 B.C., a Chinese official...
China Bets on Massive Water Transfers to Solve Crisis
From December 2007 World Rivers Review Beneath the booming factories and verdant fields of Northern China, groundwater supplies are rapidly...
Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Cost
The New York Times Choking on GrowthThis is the fourth in a series of articles and multimedia examining the human...
China Banks on Hydropower to Cut Emissions, but at Huge Human Cost
Originally published in the International Herald Tribune JIANMIN VILLAGE, China: Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three...
China Completes River Damming for 2nd Largest Hydropower Plant Project
Originally published in Xinhua News China successfully dammed the Jinsha River on Thursday, marking a key step in the construction...
Analysis: Sold down the river
Financial Times Taming China’s longest river has been the dream of emperors and dictators for centuries. The first water diversion...
A Profile of Dams in China
The following is from the just-published book about the Three Gorges Dam, The River Dragon Has Come , edited by...
Millions More to be Moved for Three Gorges Dam
Chinese authorities have announced that as many as four million more people may need to be forcibly resettled to...
Beneath Booming Cities, China's Future Is Drying Up
The New York Times Choking on GrowthThis is the second in a series of articles and multimedia examining the human...
Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up
Originally published in The New York Times SHIJIAZHUANG, China – Hundreds of feet below ground, the primary water source for...