2050 - China's Water Problem Solved?

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2050 - China's Water Problem Solved?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/asia/28water.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Scanned by: Zora Styrian over 4 years ago

China's running out of groundwater. The underground water table is sinking about four feet a year. A $62 billion South-to-North Water Transfer Project to funnel more than 12 trillion gallons northward every year along three routes from the Yangtze River basin is underway, projected to be complete by 2050. In the meantime, China insists on grain self-sufficiency, which is a huge tax on groundwater, industrial dumping has made water pollution a rampant problem nationwide, and the population is rising. What will they do?

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