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YOUR LOGO YOUR LOGO YOUR LOGO YOUR LOGO China water crisis Name: Yuna Mao Student Number:201431490005 Major: Global Environment Change Date:2014.10.27 * Outline What’s water crisis? What cause water crisis? What can be done? 4 1 2 3 * What’s water crisis? Definition: Water resources are falling whilst demand for water rises From:/big-picture/china-water-crisis/ * From:/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/15/water-the-next-challenge-for-chinas-new-leaders/ * What cause water crisis? Uneven distribution Limited water per person Climate change Increasing population Waste water Water Crisis Water pollution * What can be done? For government water conservation technologies water recycling system devoted to address pollution problems …….. For individuals change lifestyle careful with cleaner use water-saving appliances ……. * Thank you very much! * Beijing, the nation’s capital in northern China, was suffering its worst drought in 50 years. It received only 17 millimeters (0.7 inches) of rain in four months—a fraction of a day’s rainfall in southern China * China’s water crisis is both natural and man-made. For example, China’s northern regions are arid because of its natural geography and climate patterns, but humans have made these effects even worse. Rapid climate change, which most scientists consider largely human-influenced, is shortening China’s rainy seasons and melting important glaciers that feed the Yellow River.43 Northern China’s rivers are drying up as they are strained by a growing population, more factories, and water-hungry crop fields. Overgrazing by livestock—which have become incredibly numerous—has turned grasslands into sandy deserts, which in turn has caused ecosystems to lose their natural water-trapping capabilities and become even dryer.44 In this way, many of China’s water problems stem from both natural and human causes. * Besides the disparity in water supply between the north and south, China’s water crisis has a second factor