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More than 350 million people are expected to move to Chinese towns and cities in the coming years, boosting China’s urban population to one billion by 2030, according to the consultancy firm McKinsey & Company, Agence France-Presse said. According to McKinsey, the migration would more than double the number of cities with one million residents,...
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UV disinfection specialist Berson, Netherlands, has appointed Mark Cui as its Area Sales Manager for China. In his new role he will be responsible for developing the UV disinfection market for Berson in China as well as managing the company’s growing distributor network. Mark has strong technical background in municipal drinking water treatment, wastewater...
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Flood-hit areas of central, southern and eastern China braced for more heavy rains, The Washington Post reported. Hundreds of reservoirs are at risk of overflowing and algal blooms coat the Han River, a Yangtze tributary. In Beijing, downpours flooded a large part of the city. [See a slideshow here.] Following recent changes to Inner Mongolia’s...
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The Yangtze River in eastern China is at its highest level in more than 50 years, the Associated Press reported. Flooding over the past two weeks has left more than 170 people dead or missing and forced thousands from their homes. In the south-west, thousands of train passengers were stranded after landslides buried parts of the Chengdu-Kunming railway,...
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China's boom in new industrial facilities and plant modernisation projects means that the demand for clean water looks set to maintain its upward trajectory. An ultrafiltration (UF) system from inge watertechnologies AG is treating 65,000 m³ of water a day at the factory operated by Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Ltd. in the Chinese province of Guangdong....
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A new round of rain and floods battered central China, killing at least 35 people in Hubei and Hunan provinces, Xinhua reported. Torrential rains triggered floods and landslides that toppled homes and destroyed river embankments in Hubei’s city of Xianning, officials said. Rain along the middle and lower Yangtze River this week has helped alleviate...
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Chinese scientists at the Beijing Genomics Institute, the world’s largest DNA sequencing centre, identified E. coli spreading through Europe as “a new strain of bacteria that is highly infectious and toxic”, Reuters reported. The researchers – assisting scientists in Germany, where the outbreak...
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The Yangtze – Asia’s biggest river – is experiencing its worst drought in 50 years, forcing an unprecedented release of water from the Three Gorges reservoir, The Guardian reported. Between this week and June 10, the dam is to release five billion cubic metres of water as engineers sacrifice hydroelectric generation for irrigation, drinking...
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China’s Three Gorges dam faces “urgent problems”, The Guardian reported, citing a government statement. The state council, the cabinet, said the dam had pressing geological, human and ecological problems, and acknowledged for the first time the negative impact the dam has had on downstream river transport and water supplies. Although...
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The world must curb the soaring use of coal, copper and other resources to prevent consumption from reaching ruinous levels by 2050, Reuters quoted a UN report as saying – and China’s economy will be a test case. China “wants to continue its rapid economic growth but use resources more sustainably,” noted the UN Environment Programme....
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