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To: Smiling Bob who wrote (9051)	11/17/2005 6:51:33 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19256

This is NOT a company that should have a falling stock price WWAT -.36 Water Essentials: As a developing country, China has experienced significant problems associated with water distribution, quality, and supply. Population increases, elevated pollution as a result of economic growth and energy consumption, and mass rural areas have made it difficult to establish adequate levels of clean water. Insufficient water not only threatens the nation as population rates increase and water supply decreases, but industrial and agricultural production is also impacted significantly. In China, water used for agricultural purposes accounts for an estimated 66% of the country’s total annual water consumption, however poor agricultural irrigation systems have led to extreme water wastage levels whereby approximately 60-80% of the water used is lost through evaporation from irrigation systems and canals, according to the International Water Management Institute, making the need for water saving technology essential. Contributing to the growing water problems is the fact that approximately 44% of China’s populace can be found in the Northern and North-Eastern provinces, but only approximately 14% of the water resources are found in these areas. China plans to relocate approximately 400,000 people to make way for a $60 billion network of canals to supply the dry north with water from the wet south. “These canals are going to move water hundreds of miles from the Yangtze to Beijing and other parts of the north. The project could take up to 50 years to build and that $60 billion dollar mark will more than likely go higher than this initial estimate,” states William Brennan, Managing Director & Senior Portfolio Manager at Boenning & Scattergood. Addressing the dual needs for water and energy in China and around the world is WorldWater & Power Corporation, a solar engineering and water management company that sees the opportunity in these combined industries with key applications in areas such as China. As Douglas Washington, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and International Operations for WorldWater & Power explains, “China does not have sufficient energy to move the water to where the people are located, but they have vast amounts of sunshine. We are the only company in the world that has the technology to run pumps at 600 HP and greater to help move the water by just using the sun. Our technology can run desalination plants, waste treatment plants and in fact, we are near completion of the first ever water treatment facility that can be run strictly by solar.” Aggravating the water shortage problems faced by China are the high levels of water pollution, with more than 70 percent of China's rivers and lakes estimated to have been polluted to a varying degree, emphasizing the need for water filtration and treatment technologies. China’s challenges, while troubling, have led to considerable opportunities in the water industry that appear to be here for the long run. “China in particular has allocated approximately $242 million, an increase of 11%, for efforts to provide the entire Chinese population with access to clean water as quickly as possible. Separately, the Hunan and Guangdong provinces of China recently announced a plan to construct waste water treatment plants over the next two decades, with projects to divert water from the Yangtze river to drought stricken communities expected to cost approximately $1.6 billion over the next five years,” explains Brennan. China’s movement towards a greater emphasis on renewable energy technologies and supply will also positively impact their need for quality water systems as significant amounts of water can be saved on a daily basis through the use of solar, wind and other renewable systems. With most of the worldwide electricity being generated using thermoelectric power plants that utilize nuclear or fossil fuels to heat water to form steam to power turbines; water is either lost to evaporation or returned in a highly heated state that is harmful and destructive to the environment it originally came from. china-asiastocks.com