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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 12:01:08 -0600
Subject: China's water table levels are dropping fast
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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org) Posted: 11/02/2001 By svarghese@iatp.org
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CHINESE WATER TABLE TORTURE: China's water table levels are dropping fast
A study, conducted by Beijing's Geological Environmental Monitoring
Institute (GEMI), reported that over-pumping has largely depleted the
shallow aquifer, forcing well-drillers to resort to the region's deep
aquifer. That's bad news, because the deep aquifer cannot be replenished.
Under Heibei Province in the heart of the North China Plain, the average
level of the deep aquifer dropped by almost 10 feet last year. Around some
cities in the province, it fell by more than twice that.
He Qingcheng, head of the GEMI groundwater monitoring team, says that with
the depletion of the deep aquifer under the North China Plain, the region
is losing its last water reserve -- drain that, and the safety net is gone.
Lester R. Brown, founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy
Institute, takes a sobering look in Grist at the disappearing water table
under the North China Plain, which produces over half of China's wheat and
a third of its corn.
http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/maindish/brown102601.asp?source=weekly
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