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To: Win Smith who wrote (172)12/10/2002 11:20:34 AM
From: tejek   of 603
 
Grand Soviet Scheme for Water in Central Asia Is Foundering nytimes.com;

Its an incredible travesty that is about to be repeated in China. Due to deforestation, the Gobi desert has moved to within a few kilometers of Beijing, bringing horrendous sand storms to the capital city. To alleviate the drought conditions, the Chinese are proposing to move water from the South to the North through a series of canals. Its so messy, there will be considerable environmental degradation.

Of course, isn't China doing what we did at the turn of the 20th Century with all the huge dams the US built in the West? :~((

[ It turns out California isn't the only place they grow rice in the desert . . . ]

CA's rice growing days may be coming to an end. Many of the treaties that allowed it to take a significant quantity of Colorado River water are coming to an end.........and its not likely the effected parties will renew their commitments.

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