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China's arid north feeds water-rich south

(Agencies) Updated: 2014-07-08 11:41

Booming demand for food in China's southern and eastern cities is worsening water shortages in arid northern provinces, adding to the country's environmental problems, new research shows.

"Consumption in highly developed coastal provinces is largely relying on water resources in the water-scarce northern provinces, such as Xinjiang, Hebei and Inner Mongolia, thus significantly contributing to the water scarcity in these regions," an international group of researchers wrote in the latest edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

China's arid north feeds water-rich south
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China's arid north feeds water-rich south

"Rich coastal provinces gain economic profits from international exports at the expense of ecosystem quality in the less developed regions," the researchers from the University of Maryland and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis concluded ("Virtual Scarce Water in China" June 2014).

Rain and snowfall is concentrated in south and southwestern China, as well as along the east coast, which should be the most favorable regions for agricultural production.

But these provinces have experienced the fastest industrialization and urbanization since reform and opening in 1979. Large amounts of farm land have been converted to industrial and residential use.

In response, much of the country's agricultural production has been pushed north and inland to regions with much less rain.

Terms of trade

Some 109 billion cubic meters of water was traded between Chinese provinces in 2007, mostly in the form of "virtual water" contained in fresh and processed foods.

The main virtual flows are from agricultural regions like Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Ningxia and Gansu to the megacities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing, as well as the heavily industrialized provinces of Shandong, Zhejiang and Guangdong along the east coast.

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