[BIGLOOK]

Given the populations of Chinese coastal cities and their internal cities, water quality is a great concern. I wish them well in their endeavors. Their burgeoning population demands for potable water (like India's) needs resolution, one that will solved naturally.

Once my grandfather (born in 1888) told me something that his father told him which his grandfather which his grandfather told him from knowledge that was passed on from generations since their arrival in the New World.

' The Hudson has never run clear. Get water from creeks and streams.'

Water quality will be an all consuming problem in China where water is plentiful but not potable as much as it is scarce in Saharan and Mid East countries and relatively undrinkable..

There was an elderly professor here that told me that oil discovery was his research goal in the Mid East but the water supply was the local government's control over the populace. He found oil and water. Oil was the government's major concern and water wasn't. Actually it's discovery was suppressed.

Water is King.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s nice to see some traces of family lore around on FR once in a while. Don’t get me started on the kids of today. ;’)

The Nabateans maintained their grip on power by gathering and controlling their water supply; there’s also the ruins of the Marib dam which eventually gave way and the local population left with the runoff pond’s water.

Archaeologists Trace Early Irrigation Farming In Ancient Yemen
Science Daily | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | adapted from U of Toronto p.r.
Posted on 07/22/2008 11:10:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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