Province supplying Beijing water drying up

BEIJING (AFP)

“Water resources in Hebei have dwindled by nearly 50 percent in recent years,” Li was quoted as saying.

Hebei, part of China’s parched north, is one of the major suppliers of water to neighbouring Beijing and Tianjin — two sprawling cities that together group at least 28 million people and are running out of the resource.

Probe International, a leading development policy group, has warned that the city of Beijing faces economic collapse and will need to resettle part of its population in coming decades, as it could run out of water in five to 10 years.

AFP