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China water scarcity
![China’s Five-Year National Water Security Plan China’s Five-Year National Water Security Plan](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2017-01-24_15-04-27.jpg)
China’s Five-Year National Water Security Plan
By Genevieve Donnellon-May
How does China's first five-year plan for national water security attempt to tackle the country's most pressing water challenges?
![How China Is Responding to Its Water Woes How China Is Responding to Its Water Woes](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-09-07-133040.jpg)
How China Is Responding to Its Water Woes
By Genevieve Donnellon-May
The scorching heatwave in southwest China in August laid bare the country’s many interrelated water security challenges.
![Are ‘Sponge Cities’ the Answer to Shenzhen’s Water Scarcity? Are ‘Sponge Cities’ the Answer to Shenzhen’s Water Scarcity?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-01-05-001712.jpg)
Are ‘Sponge Cities’ the Answer to Shenzhen’s Water Scarcity?
By Genevieve Donnellon-May and Guangtao Fu
Shenzhen is facing its worst drought on record. Can authorities find a holistic, long-term solution?
![What’s Behind China’s Latest Mega Hydro-Engineering Project? What’s Behind China’s Latest Mega Hydro-Engineering Project?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-10-07-3.jpg)
What’s Behind China’s Latest Mega Hydro-Engineering Project?
By Genevieve Donnellon-May and Mark Wang
The Red Flag River is a means to expand China’s domestic water security networks.
![Water With Your Chips? Semiconductors and Water Scarcity in China Water With Your Chips? Semiconductors and Water Scarcity in China](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-08-02-5.jpg)
Water With Your Chips? Semiconductors and Water Scarcity in China
By Elizabeth Wishnick
Semiconductors are particularly thirsty.
![12 Regions of China: The North China Plain 12 Regions of China: The North China Plain](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-core-north-china-plain.jpg)
12 Regions of China: The North China Plain
By John Lee
The heartland of ancient China is fittingly home to the modern-day capital.
![China Wants to Make it Rain (Literally) China Wants to Make it Rain (Literally)](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2017-01-24_15-04-27.jpg)
China Wants to Make it Rain (Literally)
By Cal Wong
Cloud-seeding technology gets a boost with a new investment meant to combat drought.
![Devastated Villages Pay the Price for China's Coal Addiction Devastated Villages Pay the Price for China's Coal Addiction](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-12-16_20-49-39.jpg)
Devastated Villages Pay the Price for China's Coal Addiction
By Xie Yujuan
Years of coal development in Shenmu on banks the Yellow River have left a broken landscape.
![China, India, Pakistan: Moving Beyond Water Wars China, India, Pakistan: Moving Beyond Water Wars](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-10-05_18-20-42.jpg)
China, India, Pakistan: Moving Beyond Water Wars
By Bilal Hussain
Reliance on the same rivers should promote cooperation, not conflict, in the Indus Basin.
![How Water Scarcity Could Fuel Another Sino-Indian War How Water Scarcity Could Fuel Another Sino-Indian War](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-12-18_05-15-01.jpg)
How Water Scarcity Could Fuel Another Sino-Indian War
By Francis P. Sempa
A recent article lays out how water and geopolitics combine in Arunachal Pradesh.
![Resources, 'National Unity' Underpin Xi's Trip to Western China Resources, 'National Unity' Underpin Xi's Trip to Western China](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-09-04_12-10-22.jpg)
Resources, 'National Unity' Underpin Xi's Trip to Western China
By David Volodzko
Xi Jinping's recent trip to Qinghai highlights what Beijing sees when it looks to China's western regions.
![One Chinese City's Struggle With Water Scarcity One Chinese City's Struggle With Water Scarcity](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-09-15_19-55-29.jpg)
One Chinese City's Struggle With Water Scarcity
By Coco Liu
In the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, water demand is expected to outstrip supply by 2020.
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