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Choking on Growth (series) Part 2. Beneath Booming Cities, China's future is drying up. Jim Yardley. Published September 28, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/asia/28water.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=water+conservation+policies&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Over the past 50 years, China has become an economic superpopwer in the global economy. However, china's freshwater supply is dwindling to dangerously low levels. China's overpopulation also plays a major factor. As a country that contains one-third of the worlds population, Chinas' water usage has quuitupled since 1949. Cahina, aslo being an economic superpower, is scouring the world to power its growing, yet somewhat wasteful economy. THe North China PLain, a growing residential area aleady is also vastly growing in terms of population. Municipal wells have already drained two thirds of China's underground hardwater supply and the water table drops at about 4 feet per year. Housing complexes are advertising beachfront properties on lakes of pumped groundwater. The Communist Party. which has ben leery of foreign grain exports, are ordering more grain be planted to feed the cpuntr, which is draaining massive ammounts of China's underground water supply annualy. If China does not stop soon, its economy will drive the country into a water crisis.

Los Angeles Eyes Sewage as a Source of Water. Randal C. Archibold. Published May 16, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/us/16water.html?scp=1&sq=water+shortage&st=nyt

Faced with a persistent drought and the threat of tighter water supplies, Los Angeles plans to begin using heavily cleansed sewage to increase drinking water supplies, joining a growing number of cities considering similar measures. ThE Mayor of Los Angleles, who had opposed this idea a decade agodue to saety concerns, is now recosidering the idea of using recycled wastewater to repleanish aquifers and resevoirs. Another reason why this is getting so much attention, is because the snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which suplies 0ne-third of the water in California has been less than usual lately. THe wastewater, after intense filtering and chemical purification would allow L.A. a near perpetually resuable water source.

Thirsty Giant. India Digs Deeper, but Wells Are Drying Up. Somni Sengupta Published September 30, 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/world/asia/30water2.html?scp=4&sq=water+crisis+shortage&st=nyt

The Indian subcontinent, faced with aa population of over1 billion people and growing, is deppleting its groundwater so quickly, that it could deplete the supplies of entire regions.