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To: GST who wrote (105201)	9/18/2009 9:49:06 AM
From: SuperChief	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

>Their cities are growing at the rate of about 25 million inhabitants per year -- need I say more? That says it all.....China's a ticking time bomb for ecological disaster. * With 20% of the world’s population but only 7% of global water resources, China meets with a severe challenge. * More than half of China’s 660 cities suffer from water shortages, affecting 160 million people. * The per capita water volume in China is one fourth of the world average. * 90% of cities’ groundwater and 75% of rivers and lakes are polluted. * As a result of widespread water pollution, 700 million people drink contaminated water every day. * Waterborne diseases have created a rising number of premature deaths. (Wikipedia) and The Chinese are water-poor. They are sucking their aquifers dry. It is particularly bad in the north of China. The groundwater under the North China Plains is draining away quickly. By some estimates, China will exhaust this water supply in the next ten years. You probably know that the city of Venice is sinking a fraction of an inch per year. But that's nothing compared to what is going on in Beijing. Parts of Beijing are sinking 8 inches a year! According to Andrew Lees (The Right Game), it is the world's largest cone of depression (an underground hole created by a depleted water table) at over 15,000 square miles. The second largest cone of depression is around Shanghai. As if all of that weren't bad enough, the demand for water is still rising rapidly in China and India. The water use per capita in China and India are still well below global averages. As these countries industrialize, they'll consume exponentially more water. It takes water to make just about everything. For example, to make a 1 tonne passenger car takes more than 100,000 gallons of water. Just to make a cotton shirt takes over 1,000 gallons of water. And most of our water goes into making our food. (Daily Reckoning)