• The China Environmental Health Project
  • The China Environmental Health Project
  • The China Environmental Health Project
  • The China Environmental Health Project
  • The China Environmental Health Project

Our Mission

The purpose of the China Environmental Health Project is to develop US-Chinese partnerships to enhance the quality of public health in China by building sustainable capacity through the engagement of Chinese scientists, students, local governments, and citizens in hands-on training, as well as working with Chinese environmental NGOs to gain experience in the community outreach necessary to implement this training. Our technical focus is two-fold. Through our Technical Program for Water, we are working to find solutions to water access and quality issues that exist in the karst regions of southwest China. Our Technical Program for Air addresses air quality issues in China that arise from coal-related emissions. For more information about the project, please email chinaehp@gmail.com

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The Freshwater Crisis in China’s Karst Regions

The Freshwater Crisis in China’s Karst Regions

By Christina Larson
Special to Circle of Blue
In the southwest corner of China, a land of towering mountains and deep gorges not far from the border of Vietnam, is Shi Dong, the Rock Cave. It is here, 800 miles west of the Pacific Ocean, in an area so remote that people often settle in villages with [...]

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WKU China Partnership Provides Safe Drinking Water To More Than 27,000 Residents Of Chinese Orphanages

WKU China Partnership Provides Safe Drinking Water To More Than 27,000 Residents Of Chinese Orphanages

October 12, 2009

Bowling Green, Ky. – Western Kentucky University’s China Environmental Health Project (CEHP), in partnershipwith the foundation A Child’s Right (ACR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has completed installation of 105 water purification systems providing safe drinking water to 27,178 residents of China’s government-run Social Welfare Institutes.
China’s Social Welfare Institutes provide [...]

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WKU Geoscientist Updates U.N. Group On Karst Research

WKU Geoscientist Updates U.N. Group On Karst Research

February 20, 2009

Bowling Green, Ky. – Western Kentucky University geography professor Chris Groves is at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) in Paris this week reporting on ongoing international efforts to study and protect karst water resources.
Karst regions are those in which dissolution of soluble limestone bedrock has created [...]

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