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21 Jan 2021 EDINBURGH, United Kingdom

The Unexpected, Symbiotic Connection Between Water And Cryptocurrencies

The rapid proliferation of cryptocurrencies in recent years (with Bitcoin the most prominent) is raising environmental concerns, and water resources deployed for hydropower are becoming central to the discourse. Bitcoin may exist purely in the digital world, but the process that supports it is extremely energy intensive...

13 Jan 2021 BEIJING, China

China Government Approves Yangtze Conservation Legislation

The government of China has approved a new law on Yangtze River conservation, following a third review, which will take effect on March 1 2021. The new legislation is part of China’s efforts to protect the country’s “mother river” which stretches over 6,300km.This is the first time China has passed legislation on an individual water basin and it marks the country’s first steps on its journey to river sustainable development...

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3 Jan 2021 BEIJING

Extensive Yangtze Protection Legislation Approved

China has passed a landmark law to protect the country’s longest and largest river, the Yangtze, to better conserve the much-beleaguered waterway’s ecology and environment. The Yangtze River Protection Law is the first river basin legislation in the country and covers a range of issues, from curbing water pollution to protecting endangered aquatic-species and relocating hazard chemical plants...

10 Sep 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland

Catastrophic Decline In Freshwater Biodiversity Requires Urgent Global Action

Humanity’s destruction of nature is having catastrophic impacts on wildlife populations, human health and all aspects of our lives, reveals WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020. This loss of biodiversity is not only an environmental issue but a development, economic, global security, ethical and moral one too...

14 Jul 2020 BEIJING

Implementing China's Yangtze River Fishing Ban

As the fishing ban in the Yangtze River basin is an important measure to protect the river and improve the ecological environment, a government circular has called on local governments to make targeted plans to relocate fishermen and help them find new jobs, while increasing fiscal funds to ensure subsidies for the affected...

29 Apr 2020 BEIJING

A Water Basin Authority For The Yangtze?

A leading water environment scientist has called for the establishment of an authority in charge of all water governance functions in the Yangtze River basin, saying it would have a "decisive" role in the campaign to conserve Asia's longest river. Without such a body, which would be able to rein in different regions and government bodies, the "highly systematic" campaign would not be able to achieve complete victory, warned Qu Jiuhui, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

21 Jan 2020 Beijing

China Describes Yangtze River Water Quality Improvements

The water quality of the Yangtze River, China's longest waterway, continued to improve last year, official sources said Friday. The proportion of water with good quality rose to 91.7 percent, up 4.2 percentage points year on year, while the proportion of water that is functionally unusable fell to 0...

9 Oct 2019 HONG KONG, China

Six Of Eleven Yangtze Riparian Provinces Are Water Stressed

New analysis of China's Yangtze River basin indicates that six of the eleven provinces on the Yangtze River economic belt are water stressed.Representing about one-third of all the water flowing through Chinese rivers, the Yangtze supports economic activity in 11 provinces. Six of these are home to one-third of China’s population and account for about 35 percent of China’s GDP...

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17 Jun 2019 BEIJING, China

New Green Development For Yangtze River Economic Belt

China’s top legislator has placed emphasis on the need for high-quality, green development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.At a symposium dedicated to accelerating legislation to protect the Yangtze River, Li Zhanshu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee (phew!), indicated that targeted, scientific and effective work in legislation needs to be coordinated with territorial planning and resources utilization...

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4 Mar 2019 BEIJING, China

Water Quality In China's Lakes And Rivers "Improved"

One year into implementation of China’s revised Water Pollution Prevention Law that targets the quality of the country’s lakes and rivers, Zhang Bo of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, has reported that “Water quality nationwide has improved steadily. The campaign had a good start in its first year...

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21 Feb 2019 BEIJING

China Maps Unregistered Yangtze Sewage Outlets

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China's top environmental watchdog, has launched a campaign to comb the banks of the Yangtze River to map all sewage outlets and identify any that are unregistered. Water quality monitoring will be done at all sewage outlets, and environmental officers will trace any pollution they find to its source...

21 Jan 2019 BEIJING, China

China Reports Vast Improvements In Environmental Protection Of Water Bodies

China's Environment Minister has claimed that 99.9 Percent of environment violations effecting key cities have been rectified.Li Ganjie, Minister of Ecology and Environment, also said January 19 that 95 Percent of 1,009 discolored and foul-smelling water bodies in 36 cities have been cleaned, according to state media...

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