Vast water supplies hidden under N. China desert
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A desert in China&#39;s Inner Mongolia that has the highest sand dunes in the world holds a vast store of underground water which, if used wisely, could ease the chronic water shortage afflicting the north of the country, a study says.
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Years of drought along the Colorado River have created a harsh reality for the booming Las Vegas Valley: The metropolitan area will not be able to grow in the decades ahead without new sources of potable water.
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SHENYANG: The worst summer drought to hit Northeast China's Liaoning Province in 30 years has left more than one million people short of drinking water, the provincial government has said.
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Archaeologists excavating a sprawling prehistoric fortress in southern Greece have discovered a secret underground passage thought to have supplied the site with water in times of danger.
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Three men from Canada, Taiwan and the United States have run 7,500 km (4,700 miles) across the Sahara Desert to draw attention to the lack of access to water in many countries they crossed, one runner said on Wednesday.
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Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood.
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3rd LD-Writethru-China Exclusive: Yangtze drought leaves 1.5 million people short of water    CHONGQING, Feb.
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Water once covered thousands of square miles of Mars, creating an ancient environment that hints at the possibility that life might be present there yet today, scientists reported.
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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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Three men from Canada, Taiwan and the  United States have run 7,500 km (4,700 miles) across the Sahara  Desert to draw attention to the lack of access to water in many  countries they crossed, one runner said on Wednesday.
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A sparkling subterranean crystalline calcite formation known as Snowy River is no longer a dry riverbed. Scientists say Snowy River, discovered in 2001, is now running with between a half-foot to a foot-and-a-half of water.
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ULANHOT, China  - It is remote, virtually surrounded by desert, and its only claim to fame is as a fleeting player in the founding of Communist China -- but Ulanhot wants its slice of the multi-billion dollar "red tourism" pie.
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Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuarine landscape 10 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park.
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By Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 11--With water wells running dry and well contamination reported in some areas, Fresno County is working to secure rights to 5,000 acre-feet of water each year.
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Certain regions of Japan have begun taking precautionary measures in light of a growing water shortage across the Asian nation.
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TAIPEI - China is secretly mapping underwater terrain in the Pacific in preparation for an eventual conflict with the United States there, reports said yesterday, quoting the Taiwanese Premier.
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3rd Ld-China Focus: Drought leaves 300,000 people short of drinking water in northwest China    XI'AN, Feb.