Agricultural needs for the northern plain
Water shortage is now a fact in North China. In recent years, hydrogeological reports indicate that the water table level is decreasing in the chinese north plain. This run-dry situation is caused by two factors: one is the lack of rainfalls throughout northern provinces, the other is the more and more irrigation needs from agricultural industry. (more…)

English: artificial groundwater recharge
Chinese : 人工地下水回灌
Pinyin: ren2gong1 di4xia4shui3 hui2guan4 *

*As pinyin caracters weren’t displayed on my screen, tones are indicated with their numeral rank.

In the northern China, 400 millions of inhabitants live with an average of 700 cubic meters of water per year. This is considered not suficient by the World Bank that sets the value of the poverty line at 1000 cubic meters. In France, the same reserve for each person is about 3300 cubic meters: the issue of insufficiency of water is not for now.

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