The conflicting demand for water, food, and energy is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. Global Choke Point, a collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center, explores the peril and promise of this nexus with frontline reporting, data, and policy expertise.
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PHOTO CREDIT: THE THREE GORGES DAM, CHINA, COURTESY OF NASA.
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Cleaning up China’s Ports: Shenzhen Explores Fuel Switching and Onshore Power
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China’s “strictest air protection law” yet took effect on January 1, 2016, promising to bring big changes to its smog-filled cities. But some municipal governments have been ahead of the curve, working to clean up the air through experimentation and innovation. Shenzhen, China’s first special economic zone and which recently passed its neighbor Hong Kong to lead China’s most competitive cities, is one of these.
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Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue
Durban’s Decentralized Water and Sanitation System Sets Global Standard
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DURBAN, South Africa — Arguably the most elegant aspect of an inelegant subject is how this city of 3.2 million residents, South Africa’s second largest, is solving monumental water and waste challenges in its jammed informal settlements.
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Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue
Drought Pushes South Africa to Water, Energy, Food Reckoning
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January 7, 2016 could hardly have been worse in this thunderously beautiful, water-parched, and economically reeling nation of 55 million residents at the bottom of Africa.
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Can the “World’s Largest Urban Area” Clean Up Its Act? Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta
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SHENZHEN, China – In 1980, the year Deng Xiaoping established Shenzhen as China’s first special economic zone, opening its mercantile sectors to market capitalism and free trade principles, an attractive, tree-shaded commercial district known as Dongmen was home to 30,000 residents near the center of a metropolitan region of 300,000.
Thirty-five years later, Dongmen is a crowded commercial neighborhood of 300,000 residents at the edge of a metropolitan region of 18 million, China’s fourth largest.
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Why Canada Is an Energy Titan and How Its Hydropower Can Help the U.S.
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The United States: The world’s lone remaining superpower, home of the world’s largest economy and military, the world’s largest producer and consumer of natural gas, and soon the leading producer and consumer of oil.
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In Shenzhen, Tracking the Early Steps of China’s Carbon Pivot
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SHENZHEN, China – To some extent, the contemporary industrial age is a global narrative of substance abuse and recovery.
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Soy What? How China’s Growing Appetite is Transforming the Port of Oakland
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There’s perhaps no better evidence of China’s growing appetite for American agricultural products than the ongoing transformation of the port of Oakland.
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Tracking the Energy Titans: Hidden Trends in the United States, China, and Canada [Infographic]
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Back in high school physics we learned the first law of thermodynamics: Energy within a closed system must remain constant. In other words, the total amount of energy cannot increase or decrease without some sort of outside interference.
