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Yale Environment 360: After years of contamination and decreasing output, China's Miyun Reservoir is rebounding, say researchers from China and the U.S. Rice farming had contaminated and tapped the reservoir, which lies 100 miles north of Beijing and is the main water source for the city's 20 million inhabitants. But four years ago, the Chinese government began paying farmers to grow corn instead, which requires less water and leads to less fertilizer and sediment runoff than rice farming. Now, water quality tests show......
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Swapping Corn for Rice Benefits China’s Miyun Reservoir
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 5th, 2013
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