China's Water Crisis, Explained

China is one of the largest countries in the world, with a population of over 1.4 Billion people. While China has a thriving economy, the country faces severe water scarcity that it worsening each year. The Chinese Government's efforts to put an end to the water crisis have not gone to plan, and have had devastating effects on the environment. Some of the largest projects include The Three Gorges Dam which opened in 2006.

The Chinese Government has invested over $60 Billion US Dollars into a project called the South North Water Transfer Project. The development has a goal of diverting water from the regions with large amounts of water in Southern China, to the drought plagued Northern Rivers. Although the project seems promising in Ending China's Water Crisis, its completion date of 2050 shows that it will not have immediate benefits to the water crisis.

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[mplewp]

Im scared for our future. because insufficient planning for our future can create huge problems. Depletion of water and food are a far more dangerous thing then climate change.

[samijay]

lol in Nigeria our government doesn't even know where we citizen are getting water, we dig wells mostly and government is like if you like drink or not, thats on you

[nonyabiz]

As a Thai I hate the south north water project it's basically reallocating the water flows from the himilaya's to china unto itself without any consensus or cooperation to china's southern neighbors further exasperating droughts in countries from Pakistan to Vietnam

[james.strong]

The problem is that the CCP says they are gonna do something but does the exact oppisite to what they said. This has been seen with how they are going to help with climate change but at the same time opens *NEW* coal plants.

[PureBadBreath]

The water supply will become increasingly volatile with extreme weather patterns. Its arable land is very vulnerable to flooding, as too are inland cities built next to rivers.

[stormynatero]

2050 ?
Y'all should be able to do that in like 5 years.

[byteshadow]

Man i tought this was real life lore lmao, good luck man this content is lit

[thatrobocop]

Here in Monterrey, México we have a water scarcity problem and seeing that China have the biggest dam in the world i'm gonna say what people say in the city i live in and it is that How useful is a new dam if there's no water to fill it? (context: the state goverment is building the "Presa Libertad" and people figure this questioning how a dam would help us)

[janetkelley]

Another factor is the reduction of glacier water output. With the reduction of water from these glaciers impending the plan to divert water is a mood point. Of course China’s population will significantly shrink in the 28 years it will take to divert and in the long run less people will require less water. This is to discount any other mitigating circumstances, such as famine or another waive of viruses.

[KJSvitko]

Every home and business should install a rain water collection and storage system along with solar panels.
Even in areas where rain is infrequent it is crazy to waste the little rain that does fall and waste it.

[kev]

They are solving the water problem with depopulation.

[snapon]

What happened to the massive flooding they have had for the last 3 years ? so much water they thought they would lose the 3 gorges dam ? ...China has been heavily playing with weather modification ...this years drought " may be " the result ??

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[OrdoMallius]

They fucked up their feng shui with the dams.

[absjones]

The faster they run out the better for the west…

[ajr]

They are currently experiencing a drought of catastrophic proportions

[JamesY.]

In Philippines we depend on rain for fresh water.

[hobog]

The Mekong river international supply, and North, East, West, Southwest PRC consumers are in danger thanks to the CCP and associated corruption. Right off the bat, I think southern PRC regions like the Pearl River basin and Hainan (and Guangxi?) are better off for water supply, not being desertificated, not having its water diverted wholesale across the nation. However, cities in south china too have tree canopy + undergrowth and therefore earth retention at risk due to plastic littering and other pollution.

[onba]

You left out how dams also contribute to this. They slow water flow and increase the surface to air ratio. Both these create a higher evaporation rate and then the new humidity is blown elsewhere before falling again. Some of it would still fall back to China but not all. Then their is more water lost because dams create more water to ground area and the water soaks in more, making down stream dryer. China has more dams than any other country and many of these dams are in sequence, so basically China is pissing away tons of water every day.

Also, leading up to this China was actually having major floods, possibly because of the excesses evaporation making excess rain fall, but that would cause even more water loss. Again, because water would leak underground over an even large area. If it seeps in deep it's taken out of the regulars water cycle until an underground river dumps it out elsewhere, or it's manually pumped out.