China faces water shortage of 40 billion cubic meters every year
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BEIJING: China faces water shortage of 40 billion cubic meters (1,400 billion cubic feet) every year with severe water pollution posing a threat to the health of millions of people, state media reported.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 11 September: China's State Council, or Cabinet, has authorized the Three Gorges power plant to raise the water level of the reservoir from the current 135 metres to 156 metres.
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The world is on the verge of a water crisis as people fight over ever dwindling supplies, experts told the Stockholm Water Symposium.
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3rd Ld-China Focus: Drought leaves 300,000 people short of drinking water in northwest China    XI'AN, Feb.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["China Sets Water-Saving Target for per Unit GDP Growth by 2010" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Underground water reserves in around 9 out of every 10 Chinese cities are polluted or over-exploited, and could take hundreds of years to recover, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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By Audra Ang Associated Press  BEIJING - Fast-spreading, foul-smelling blue-green algae smothered a lake in eastern China, contaminating the drinking water for millions of people and sparking panic-buying of bottled water, state media said Thursday.
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By Miao Qing  NINGBO: The country's largest seawater desalination plant is to be built in the coastal county of Xiangshan, in East China's Zhejiang Province.
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The world's fast-growing thirst for water can only be met by purifying sea water as rivers and reservoirs become unable to meet demand, Spain said on Thursday unveiling a major program to fight its own chronic shortages.
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China on Sunday ordered urgent steps to fight transport chaos and threats to energy and food supplies caused by brutal winter weather that forecasters said will continue as the nation heads into a major holiday.
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Water release eases drinking water shortages in SW China city    WUHAN, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Three hydropower dams on a major tributary of the Yangtze River have been ordered to discharge water to help drought-stricken residents in southwest China's Chongqing municipality.
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By Goh Thean Eu  HOMEGROWN companies, especially those with water treatment and environmental protection expertise, are urged to venture into China's water sector as demand for clean water grows.
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People will need to eat more vegetables and less meat because of dwindling water supplies, scientists say.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 14 December: The Chinese national capital will endeavour to make all rivers and lakes within the sixth ring road of the city free of pollution by the year 2010.
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More than one billion people drink  unsafe water and over 2.6 billion, around 40 percent of the  world's population, have no access to basic sanitation, U.N.  agencies said on Thursday.
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China is suffering from the most severe brain drain in the world, state media says.
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Chinaâs State Environmental Protection Administration said on Tuesday that water quality is barely improving in the main body of water behind the Three Gorges Dam.