Environment

From Newsweek Aug 24 – 2009
After three years of drought, California’s legendary water wars are flaring once again, and towns like Mendota, San Joaquin, and Firebaugh are getting a first glimpse of what their future might look like. Farmers blame the area’s blight on a “man-made drought” brought on by increasingly strict environmental regulations, but that is only the beginning of the story. There’s also the crushing confluence of political negligence, drought, and a century’s worth of unbridled growth.
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Decision on survival has to be made now. Survival for the future means water, clean, safe drinking water. Federal, provincial and regional governments are slow to act when the pay off is not instant and financial. By Salmon Arm a developer is facing prosecution over possible river destruction where salmon spawn. Pesticide, herbicide use is rampant, animal and human waste contaminates the source of the water we drink. Medicines remain in the water after passing through us. And then the ever increasing stories of shortages.
All Headlines are from Aug. 20 09
Syria, Iraq and Turkey ‘to discuss water shortage’
Kenya hit by mass hunger and water shortage
Doña Ana farmers face irrigation water shortage
China Faces Acute Water Shortage, Turns To The Sea To Solve The …
Water shortage the biggest environmental concern on the planet ..

Water shortage threatens Asia’s food supplies
West Bank Suffers Acute Water Shortages

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http://www.weforum.org 07.09.2007
The Outlook for China’s Policy Environment
Inclusiveness, transparency and fact-based analysis are becoming increasingly integral in the policy-making process as a result of new perspectives brought forward by the country’s leadership. The 11th Five-Year Plan, the Property Law and the Corporate Income Tax Law have been cited as examples of how policy-making in China has been constantly evolving to accommodate changing realities both at home and abroad.
1) How has China’s entry into the WTO and the Olympics impacted the country’s policy-making processes?
2) What role can business play in improving China’s future policy environment?
3) How will the emergence of a new generation of leaders at China’s upcoming 17th Party Congress shape the future policy environment?
4) What are the implications for international companies doing business in China?

Simultaneous interpretation in English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Russian

Discussion Leaders
Dai Xianglong
Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, USA; Global Agenda Council on Demographic Shifts
Fan Gang, Director, National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation, People’s Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances
William R. Rhodes, Senior Vice-Chairman, Citigroup; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Citibank NA, Citi, USA
Zhang Xiaoqiang, Vice-Chairman, National Development and Reform Commission, People’s Republic of China

Moderated by
Victor L. L. Chu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong SAR; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum

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A video presentation for my AP Environmental Science class. This video focuses on the problems in India and China.

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BBC News Article on Environmental Issues – Interested? Join the debate at Fair Air: http://www.google.co.uk/group/fairair?hl-en-GB

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Air pollution is becoming a major problem in China. China has been creating a lot air pollutants affecting its neighbouring countries. Hong Kong which has not much industrial activities has been affected very badly by the pollution created in China. Smog becomes very common during winter as the wind carries a lot of pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxided, carbon monoxide, and ozone from the north (China).

The short film was taken at around 8 am on May 7 2007 which was a Monday morning. There had been virtually no activities going on in Hong Kong but still pollutants were blown from Mainland China to Hong Kong.

The major cause of pollution in Guangdong is believed to be power generation. The Mainland Chinese Communist government has been unable to control power generation by illegal power plants using low quality coal probably without any filtering. The Mainland Chinese Communist government has said repeatedly that it will reduce pollution; however, there is strong evidence that air pollution is increasing rather than reducing! Hong Kong is the victim of Mainland China’s economic growth.

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30 seconds video to promote development of a Google mapping system on China’s environmental pollution and health.

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Nov 2007
In the past six years, infant birth defects in China have increased by an unprecedented 40%. This rise is being blamed on pollution from factories. Now green campaigners are taking on the multinationals.
“The untreated waste is pumped out secretly at night”, states activist Wu Deng Ming, pointing at a water outlet leading from a factory into a river. “People living along the river have enlarged livers”, claims one local. They suffer from: “loss of appetite or cancer and all sorts of terminal diseases”. Although strong laws governing pollution exist, these are regularly flouted. “Some local officials give protection to polluters”, claims Ma Jun. In an attempt to put pressure on polluters, campaigners are naming and shaming guilty companies online. “We let people know that this company, with such a popular brand, is violated waste water discharge standards”. There are also signs that central government is taking the problem more seriously. “The state is very serious about environmental problems”, states official Zhou Linbo. Some factories have been closed down. But strong resistance to change still exists. “Polluting factories hire hooligans to deal with people they believe will damage their reputation”, claims Wu Deng Ming. Other companies threaten to relocate to Vietnam or Indonesia where; “we can still discharge more of less freely”.

Produced by SBS/Dateline
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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BBC News Article on Environmental Issues – Interested? Join the debate at Fair Air: http://www.google.co.uk/group/fairair?hl-en-GB

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This video provides many pictures of the effects of air pollution and some general facts pay through out the video i created this for a school presentation to visually enforce the effects of air pollution.

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China Umweltkollaps Umweltverschmutzung Environmental Pollution

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