The East is Red (not) - Part 2
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Originally Posted by Australian Financial Review 17 July 2006
China's water problems make solving Australia's look like child's play, writes Stephen Wyatt. China's water is fast disappearing. Most of what has not been consumed by industrialisation, urbanisation and China's rapid growth has been poisoned. Water is the biggest resource constraint to China's continued economic success and, according to the Chinese government, water scarcity costs industry $US25 billion ($33 billion) a year and agriculture $US19 billion