China's Olympic Water Crisis

What is it about China and dams?

First it was the earthquake, which may or may have not been caused by the creation of the largest river damn project in the world. Then it was the flooding that followed when earthquake lakes were formed by falling mountain rocks that dammed rivers.

Now we have a water shortage in the area around Beijing because most of the water needed for irrigation is being diverted to the capital due to the Olympics. Of course, the environmental and economic consequences are devastating.

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Posted on 07/03/08 in Hard Times

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