I wonder about their spanking new airport they built overnight for
the Olympics
Do you think it can even function :x
there will be severe water shortage .....
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=11933&size=A
.....
The news agency Xinhua foresees a shortage of
drinking water for 5.82 million people. Meanwhile, is
expected that during the Olympics Beijing, a city of 16 million
residents, will require 2.75 million cubic metres of water a day,
30% more than normal. The city wants to bring it in from
Hebei, in part through a new canal about 309 kilometres long, which
draws from four basins. But the water is low and "stagnant"
in many of the reservoirs, there is not enough for the crops, and
at least 500,000 inhabitants are suffering from a shortage of
drinking water. The aquifers in Hebei have dropped by one to
two metres in a year, and 50,000 wells have gone dry.
