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China Water Scarcity

Living on Earth
August 14, 2013
  • By Lucie MacNeill
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Around the world, projections are being made about food production in China in the coming century. Critical to the question of growing food is the availability of the water that irrigates it. Lucie MacNeill reports from China on the state of water in the world’s most populous nation, and what may be done to avoid further crisis.

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