Posts Tagged ‘green’

Blue water for Green Olympics – Part II

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Green everywhere for everyone.

Who says hosting nation of the Olympic Games, says big budget. And who says drought in that country, says big issues for water supply. Except for China? Officially, yes. The authorities in charge for water management in Beijing had claimed that the Games will not suffer from a lack of water. “Water demand during the 2008 Olympics will be guaranteed,” said Wu Jisong, director of the water supply program under the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, in 2006. And for good reasons. (more…)

Blue water for Green Olympics – part I

Friday, September 14th, 2007

One year ahead the Olympics Games, the main concern of the organizing commitee (the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games) is not hight-level performances during competition or infrastructures building up on time.

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