“It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.” WorldNationsWaterTalkingSecurityChinaTerroristHolesShipsIndianBudgetsGoodsWorld HistoryPirateNovemberSinkingImpunityPunching Book:Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery Source: Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery
“Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens of thousands of homes.” WorldUseHomeWaterMillionsBuildingIndustryIndiaCleanChinaHarvestClean WaterPioneeringHeatingRainwater Author:Christopher Flavin
“In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.” TwoEyeCertainNamesSoundWaterHalfTreeBloodPossibilityColorRedSacredRoseAncientUglyChinaSeedsListsCuriousIndianGreekScholarInteriorsGorgeousLiliesRubiesLotusesBengaliTagoreCranesSaffronPomegranatesSacred TextsWater Lily Author:Victoria Finlay
“I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.” PeopleChildrenFactsWaterMillionsAwarenessProjectsChinaAccessEducateThirstUnescoAccess To Water Author:Joyce Giraud
“In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.” HandsWaterDutyHonorCivilizationMountainChinaChineseCherishSmallestConformHollowClansPlacidDuty And Honor Author:Bette Lord
“The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days.” YearsFirstsEndsShowsProblemRunningWaterSeeingSeaHugeGoes OnCivilizationFlowRiversEnvironmentalChinaDecadesChineseDryYellowCradleShortage Author:Lester R. Brown