#Energy Prominent among China's stunning natural-resource challenges is water. The country has a good supply of it in much of the south, particularly off the Tibetan Plateau, but not enough in much of the north, both for populous areas and for farming. A mammoth government effort to redirect the supply is under way. China's also thirsty for generating power, and wanting to get off its excessive reliance on polluting coal. So a lot of that southern water, coursing through rivers like the Yangtze, is a temptation for dam development and hydro-electricity. (This also has potential for huge profits.) And Chinese authorities have built dams like there's no tomorrow.http://ift.tt/1vsk9Os http://bit.ly/15KdByZ
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