China risking water crisis due to coal power plants

BEIJING: Environmental campaigners Greenpeace urged China on Tuesday to review plans for a huge expansion in coal mines and power plants, warning of a water crisis in the country’s already arid north.

Beijing plans to increase coal production by 2.2 billion tons a year by 2015 as it tries to meet the country’s growing demand for electricity, and is building 16 new facilities, most of them in the northern provinces of Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Ningxia.

But a new Greenpeace report said this would require up to 10 billion cubic metres of water annually, creating a “grim future” for a region already suffering severe water shortages.

“The reality is there is simply not enough water,” said Li Yan, Greenpeace East Asia climate and energy campaign manager. “It is limited, and there is no miracle to ensure the water resources in those areas could magically increase.

“We are calling for a serious re-think of the scale of these plans, which look really over-ambitious.”

Greenpeace said the vast amounts of water needed for coal extraction and electricity production would have a severe impact on the Yellow River, with 41 per cent of the country’s coal reserves located on the river’s upper reaches.

Source: The News

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