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Water In China Research Paper

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Urban population has exponentially increased over time causing there to be less available water. Most of the usable water in certain areas of China is highly polluted and entirety unsafe for people to drink without becoming ill, they have to drink water from water bottles. There has been an increase in population and in China there is already an extremely large amount of people. China has to feed almost 1.4 billion people with only 6% of the world’s resources. Agriculture is responsible for approximately 75-80% of the US' water use and 60% of China's consumptive water use, also a large amount of consumptive water usage goes towards agriculture in the United States. According to The China Green News (http://eng.greensos.cn/ShowArticle.aspx?articleId=605)
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