Honors Theses
Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Croft Institute for International Studies
First Advisor
Michael Harvey
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
China's urban residential communities are currently facing mounting levels of water scarcity with the potential to impact social and even possibly political stability. China's central government is currently attempting to mitigate such potential risk by adopting a variety of projects aimed at combating potable water shortages. This paper sets out to analyze three of the national projects adopted by China's central government to combat critical residential water shortages currently affecting China's urban areas. The three projects are South North River Transfer Project, the adoption of tiered water pricing system, and the construction of desalinization facilities in some coastal cities. Each of these projects distributional equality, political feasibility, cost effectiveness, and environmental impact will be examined so as to determine which serves as the best viable solution to China's current water shortages. The variety of these projects suggests a single policy will be unable to provide a complete solution to China's residential water shortages. Rather the direness of China's urban water scarcity will require the simultaneous adoption of multiple policies to fully address the potable water needs of China's urban residential communities.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Holly C., "Drink, Drank, Drunk: an Analysis of Three Possible Solutions to Urban Residential Potable Water Shortages in China" (2015). Honors Theses. 1252.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/1252
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Comments
A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for completion of the Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from the Croft Institute for International Studies and the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.