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Water scarcity in China - China’s Yellow River under threat

Geoff Riley

3rd September 2014

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An excellent short report from Lucy Hornby of the Financial Times on how large coal and oil projects along the course of the Yellow River are causing water shortages for millions of people and threatening the local farming industry. Water has composite demand - it has many uses and farmers along the famous yellow River are finding that the country's rising thirst for energy is placing increasing demand on the supply of water from the river. Difficult choice are having to be made.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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