Chapter One Media Article

3mn Face Drinking Water Scarcity In Southern, Eastern China

November 9th, 2006

After the big drought in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Southern and Eastern China will be facing their biggest problem, scarcity of water. Nearly three million people in Southern and Eastern China are facing clean water shortage after the drought; it caused forty-four reservoirs to dry up. More than 2.4 million people are suffering clean water scarcity since late October. The average rainfall in Guangxi has added up to 29 millimeters, 65 percent less than last year. The regional meteorological department said that eight cities and counties in Guangxi had no rainfall last month and the capital Nanning had been experiencing a serious drought for straight thirty-seven days. High temperatures have worsened the situation in the region. Water storage in the reservoirs had dropped from eight billion cubic meters to 4.7 billion after the drought. Forty-six reservoirs in Nanning have gone dry. A separate report from east China's Anhui said that 53,000 people in the province are also facing abnormal drought over the last two months. 60% of the rainfall’s average dropped in the last two months, affecting clean water supplies in three counties of Anqing city and almost 11,61,370 acres of farmland across the province. The city of Anqing hardly had any rainfall since September. That resulted in large number of ponds drying up and rivers running dry. The local government is using tractors and fire engines to bring water into affected areas

Related To The Chapter:

In this chapter, we have learned about scarcity. The more goods that are needed is scarce, more people would be in difficult situations. In my article, China is facing a really big problem. They are running out of water. A lot of people haven't consume any water after the drought. The water supply dropped twice as much as original. This clearly explains that water is scarce in the eastern and Southern part right now. They have only limited amount of water left. Water is essential in life, for the people to live, they must consume water. So if this situation is not solved, then people in China would be in trouble.

Personal Reflection:

I think if people where to only to have a limited supply of water, there would be a big problem for them. If the water are used up what would they do? Without water for a long period of time, people would eventually die. I think the solution they thought of to solve this problem is effective only a certain number of times. I would suggest that they should fill back up the reservoirs by using dirty water and filter all the dirty stuff and make it into drinking water so the people in China will have water to use.