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The Australian's China correspondent Rowan Callick casts doubt on Beijing's water supply.

Let's face it: China is an environmentalist's nightmare. The air turns your snot black, the water is filled with toxic chemicals, and "litter" is an idiomatic concept.

Now, with Chongqing's taps running dry and 8 million thirsty people up a creek without any water, China's own Al Gore clones are starting to emerge. One possible candidate is water resources minister Wang Shucheng, who gave a bleak assessment of China's ecological future in his address to the National People's Congress

With Youtube back on now, we wanted to make sure and post this series. It is an excellent presentation of the water problems that China faces and some of the progrmas/ solutions being put in place to address these problems.

Merits of building water pipelines across China to transform arid & semi-arid lands & to ease population pressures.

As China's skies turn gray and its rivers run black, those water tanks on the roofs of homes may hold the key to future. 80% of China's water is solar heated, and extended that trend to other areas could help the country from choking to death.

MIANYANG, China - Chinese authorities prepared on Saturday to drain a swelling lake formed by a devastating earthquake, completing work on a drainage channel to divert water that threatens hundreds of thousands downstream.

Officials are expected to discharge flood water from the lake into the channel between Sunday and Tuesday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, quoting Yue Xi, deputy chief of the water and electricity section of the People's Armed Police.

The water in China is unfit for drinking, the Government admitted yesterday, as it announced plans to spend

MIANYANG, China - A strong aftershock struck China's quake-battered Sichuan province Thursday, as rising water levels in a lake caused by landslides in the massive May 12 temblor forced evacuations from downstream areas.

There were no immediate reports of new damage or injuries caused by the 5.3 magnitude aftershock. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that it struck at 12:41 p.m. (12:41 a.m. EDT) just south of the town of Qingchuan at the relatively shallow depth of 6 miles.

Last week one of my former students from Luoyang wrote to me expressing concern for my safety. What was the nature of her concern, you ask? Bird flu outbreak? Contaminated water? Rising pork prices?