{"id":20008382,"date":"2014-07-03T11:41:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2020-10-01T20:41:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:11:45","slug":"video-the-disappearance-of-lake-baiyangdian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/water\/video-the-disappearance-of-lake-baiyangdian\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: the disappearance of Lake Baiyangdian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444\">If you drive south from Beijing on the highways that cut across the North China Plain, some of the first things you notice are the invisible rivers.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">The road arcs upward above the cornfields and a sign insists you are crossing, \u201cThe Hancun River Bridge,\u201d \u201cThe Liuli River Bridge,\u201d \u201cThe Sha River Big Bridge,\u201d or \u201cThe Especially Big Bridge\u201d over the Qin River. But on most drives, this information functions mainly as history. Underneath the bridges there is nothing but more corn, or a pile of dust shifting in the breeze.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">Water supplies on the North China Plain, an area that is home to 200 million people and produces more than half of China\u2019s grain,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0fa4d4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/6319-Beijing-water-shortage-worse-than-the-Middle-East\">are among the scarcest<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444\">\u00a0per capita in the world.<br \/>\n<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/>[vimeo 95545047 w=480 h=319]<br \/>\n<br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">Centuries of damming and diversion for irrigation and flood control and recent decades of heavy industrial pollution\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0fa4d4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/5198-Does-China-have-enough-water-to-keep-building-three-power-stations-a-week-\">have left the region parched\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444\">on the surface and sinking deeper every year into the emptying aquifers beneath. China\u2019s leaders are racing to replenish the region with\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0fa4d4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/blog\/6737-South-North-water-transfer-project-not-sustainable-says-Chinese-official\/en\">water from other parts of the countr<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444\">y, but in the meantime the wells get deeper with every passing year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps nowhere do the threats to the region\u2019s water supply appear more menacing than on Lake Baiyangdian, the massive wetland known as North China\u2019s kidney. In living memory, the lake teamed with fish, flushed pollutants from rivers that passed through it, and regulated the region\u2019s climate. Today, it is shrunken and poisoned, barely able to support the people and animals who live on its waters, let alone the country beyond.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cStaying Afloat: Life on a Disappearing Lake,\u201d Chinese filmmakers Lynn Zhang and Shirley Han Ying train their camera on the people who have been both perpetrators and victims of Baiyangdian\u2019s decline. They show us not just how its current predicament came to pass, but also the urgency of making sure Baiyangdian does not follow the region\u2019s rivers into history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese filmmakers Lynn Zhang and Shirley Han Ying document the people who have been both perpetrators and victims of Lake Baiyangdian\u2019s decline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20000236,"featured_media":20014239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50039903],"tags":[50040314,20000060],"hashtags":[],"country":[20000110],"class_list":["post-20008382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water","tag-dams","tag-groundwater","country-china"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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