Parched Beijing's Olympics Bid Based on Fake Snow
Where better for a Winter Olympic Games than famously arid north China?Drought and a fast growing economy have created water shortages so severe that China’s government has spent more than a decade, and up to U.S.$80 billion, constructing 2,400 kilometers of canals and tunnels to pump 45 billion cubic meters of water from the moist south to the parched capital and surrounding