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Green Olympics straining water supply

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BAODING, China - The Beijing Games have been beset by worries…

Water crisis could collapse Chinese capital

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BEIJING - Beijing's water crisis is so critical that the city…
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China: Chemical spill threatens water

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BEIJING - A truck has overturned and spilt a powerful chemical…
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China plans mass exodus from quake zone

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MIANYANG, China - Chinese authorities have begun evacuating an…
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China working to clean water after quake

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BEIJING - China has still to recover 15 hazardous radioactive…
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China “quake lake” could force 1.3 million people to evacuate

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BEICHUAN, China - New fears about the lakes formed after the…
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After the quake, 21 lakes formed

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CHENGDU, China - In the wake of the 8.0 magnitude quake that…

Up to 400 dams damaged by China quake

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CHENGDU, China - Nearly 400 dams were damaged by Monday's earthquake…
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Tibetan Plateau Water Reserves at Risk

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Over at Circle of Blue WaterNews, we're reporting today on another ingredient to consider in the context of the China-Tibet conflict. Keith Schneider and C.T. Pope write that the Tibetan Plateau's vast reserves of glacial freshwater, which supply Asia's most populous regions, are both at risk and are emerging as an issue in the increasingly tense political and cultural strife between China and Tibet.
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China, Tibet, and the Strategic Power of Water

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Pollution and global warming threaten Asia's most important freshwater source.
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Geoffrey Dabelko: Talking water and opportunities for environmental peacemaking

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Dr. Geoffrey D. Dabelko is director of the Environmental Change…
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China tests water after 200 sickened

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BEIJING - China has ordered quality checks on barreled water…