China's water resources are scarce and unevenly distributed. It has the sixth largest amount of renewable resources in the world, but a per capita availability that is only one-fourth the world average and among the lowest for a major country. The country is under serious water stress, and its problems are made more severe by the fact that resources are unevenly distributed, both spatially and temporally. Per capita water availability in northern...
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Addressing China's water scarcity
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Xie,Jian.
Addressing China's water scarcity (English). Water P-Notes ; no. 37 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/537531468221676912