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? what will the future water needs produce? Built 100 miles northeast of the capital in the 1960s, the reservoir has operated at less than a third of its capacity for years. A massive project now under way to divert water to Beijing from southern China will help alleviate demand, but protecting the reservoir from pollution remains a separate challenge. China has 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its fresh water – and it is quickly running out of the vital fluid. Beijing, which lies in China’s arid north, presents an especially difficult task. Rapid growth in and around the city has drained nearby rivers, reservoirs, and underground aquifers that took millenniums to fill. The water table underneath the capital has dropped about 1,000 feet since the 1970s. Nearby watersheds are quickly drying up. Consequently, Beijing’s 22 million residents have to make do with an ever-shrinking water supply that’s estimated to meet the needs of only 12 million, according to the IUCN. _________________________________ Maybe the future profits will be in the investment to build and operate desalination plants and pumping stations. |
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It's interesting how unconcerned so many are about such a vital thing as "Water". I find it hard to believe so many people speak so much about their education and where they got it.. but the things which are vital to life, 'Such as Water" seems to have such limited interest to discuss and eloborate about the challenges of such.
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It generally takes direct crisis before people really pay attention to such thing, and certainly when it concerns water, people take it for granted far too much. At least in the Western Society it is greatly taken for granted.
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