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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/07/content_449451.htm http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=1878
 * More than 100 of China's 660 cities face ``extreme water shortages,'' Qiu said at a news conference.
 * China supports 21 percent of the world's population with just 7 percent of its water supplies, Qiu said.
 * Water shortages have been a constant worry for China for centuries. Problems have only worsened in recent decades as the population swelled and largely unregulated factories dumped toxic pollutants into rivers and lakes.
 * Some 90 percent of China's cities and 75 percent of its lakes suffer from some degree of water pollution, Qiu said.
 * China will face growing shortages until 2030, when its population is projected to reach 1.6 billion people, Qiu said.
 * One of China’s most critical environmental problems is water pollution; 300 million people lack access to clean drinking water; over 70 percent of lakes and rivers are polluted; and according to an article in the Wall Street Journal, “factories and cities dump some 40 to 60 billion tons of wastewater and sewage into lakes and rivers each year.”
 * In March, Pan Yue, the deputy minister of China’s State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), openly acknowledged that "the environmental crisis, particularly for water, is coming to China earlier than expected."

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