China Drought Leaves 17 Million Without Water

[lovuian]

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37640/story.htm

BEIJING - About 17 million people in southwest China don't have access to clean drinking water due to sustained drought, state media reported on Sunday.


Crops on large tracts of farmland in Sichuan province and the nearby Chongqing municipality have withered due to the month-long drought, causing economic losses of 9.23 billion yuan (US$1.15 billion), the Beijing News and the Xinhua news agency said.
Local governments have allocated funds to help residents fight the drought by tapping ground water and improving water conservation facilities, Xinhua said.

The searing heat meant 14 million people in Chongqing and three million in Sichuan lack clean drinking water, the media said

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China is getting paid back for its ignoring of Mother Earth

[roguevalley]

1. mind boggling. they better get ready for 17 million people to hit the

road toward water.

[annabanana]

2. It is hard to get the mind around those numbers...

17 million people without water?
How can this possibly be attended to?

[Skidmore]

3. Easy. Get exclusive distribution rights for Aquafina or the

bottled water of your choice to China.

[rman]

4. China is a cracy place

Orwell's "1984" became reality there decades ago.

see

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party documentary series

Based on the book "The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party"
Available as free download from http://www.theepochtimes.com
Since its release, over 3 million Chinese have publicly withdrawn from the Communist party.

The traditional Chinese character for "party" consists of two radicals: "advocate" and "black".
Confusius said "the superior man has friends, but does not belong to a clique".
In Chinese history, "party" or "party member", which can also be interpreted as "gang" or "gang member", carries a derogatory meaning.

Teaser: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7665540972727883942&q=Nine+Commentaries+on+the+Communist+Party (1 minute video)

A total of some 9 hours of video focussing on the Chinese Communist Party, with ample reference to communist party in the USSR, Marxism and Leninism.
About the violent overthrow and supression of traditional Chinese culture, and how the Chinese communist party rewrote its constitution several times in response to economic and social crises, at one point even including capitalism into its doctrine.

The Epoch Times special edition
Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party
http://ninecommentaries.com/
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Nine+Commentaries+on+the+Communist+Party

1. On What the Communist Party Is
More than a decade after the fall of the former Soviet Union and Eastern European communist regimes, the international communist movement has been spurned worldwide. The demise of the Chinese Communist Party is only a matter of time.

2. On the Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party
Why did the Communist Party emerge, grow and eventually seize power in contemporary China? Did the Chinese people choose the Communist Party? Or, did the Communist Party gang up and force Chinese people to accept it? The CCP has set itself above all, conquering all in its path, thereby bringing endless catastrophe to China.

etc.

[soothsayer]

5. They should find a way to capture the glacial runoff before it just

gets wasted pouring into the sea