Posted on 11/01/2005 4:55:11 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
China's water crisis -- from severe shortages to heavy pollution -- is the worst in the world and requires urgent action, a top government official says.
China was "facing a water crisis more severe and urgent than any other country in the world," Vice Minister of Construction Qiu Baoxing told a conference in Beijing on developing China's urban water supply.
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Long-term solution is desalinization, as usual. That needs nuclear power. China better do this while they have the scratch.
This is proof, as if any is needed, that the governments of the Far East are at least as capable of shortsightedness and bad decisions as those in the United States & West. Unfortunately, we can count on the American business community to bail them out, as they do every time they get themselves into a mess.
Why is it that when leftist peacenicks aid and abet enemy countries, it's treason, but when corporations and business executives do the same, it's free enterprise and criticizing of them is socialist?
Was China one of the countries EXEMPTED from the Kyoto agreement?
Yes it was, good point!
International Bottled Water Association Website
"We must take precautionary measures before the urban water ecosystem collapses," Qiu said.
Lets sell them some water....might lower the balance of trade!
Even during the Revolutionary War, American tradeships were in China. The China trade was always important to America. Jefferson was looking for a cross-continent river route to the West Coast, and then a direct shipping route to Asia, when he sent Lewis and Clark out, and this idea continued to dominate thinking, even being important in the development of the transcontinental railroad and the Panama Canal, and part of the tension leading to the Civil War. China was never viewed as any kind of colony by America though, always as its own country. That is why Taiwan is hardly ever treated as an actual American Territory, even though the diplomatic structure has been maintained as such.
Naw...just piss on 'em.
Who knew . . . that the treasures of the orient would be Beanie Babies?
Reminds me of the too good to be true books we learned of as children:
The Yellow River
by I.P. Daly
Well, the silk and jade are a limited market--the merchandise is of a permanent nature. Steel handtools that last until the first time they are used are a limitless market.
Bush's fault!
Corporations are starting to get antsy about the amount of capital they have invested in China and are now looking to shift some of the production to India.
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