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Politics, News & Issues > Environmental Awareness Can individuals significantly ease the world water crisis, or must we rely on governments, corporations, the United Nations, the European Union and non-profits, for a remedy?: 21 of 30

For centuries, water from the Yellow River has been used to irrigate the rice growing plains of China, but this vital water supply is threatened by competing human demands for sewer systems, drinking water, and irrigation systems. Farmers have tried to do their part by waiting for rainfall, but when the dry seasons come, China resorts to water mining to meet the country's competing water demands. Water mining alone destroys the fragile water tables and the environmental balance of fresh and polluted water. China, however, is not the lone player in this process. Most other industrialized co...
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