The Yellow River: the problem of water in modern China

Flowing through the North China Plain - home to 200 million people - the Yellow River sustains one of China's core regions.

Yet this vital water supply has become vulnerable in recent decades, with potentially serious repercussions for China's economic, social, and political stability.

This book is an investigative expedition to the source of China's contemporary water crisis, mapping the confluence of forces that have shaped the predicament the world's most populous nation faces in managing its water reserves.