From Reuters via Msnbc.msn.com:
China has begun storing water pumped from the Yellow River in Olympic co-host city Qingdao to guarantee supplies in the parched northern port during next year’s Games, local media reported.
Qingdao , which will host Olympic sailing events, by the end of November will pump water from the Yellow River equal to almost a year’s annual consumption in the city of 7.7 million residents, Xinhua news agency said, citing a senior water engineer. “The water will be saved for domestic and industrial use and will alleviate water supply pressures on Qingdao during the 2008 Olympics,” the agency quoted Liu Jing, a senior engineer with the Yellow River Engineering Bureau, as saying. [Full Text]
[Image: A couple carry water through their dry rice field, from AP.]
