China's efforts have been encouraged by an increasingly desperate shortage of water in the north.
There, the shortage of water mattered far more to most voters than the latest call-centre.
He has applied far more money and know-how to issues far less important than the shortage of water.
"It's really a struggle to manage those evacuation centres, there's a shortage of water and a shortage of food, " he said.
China has a different sort of problem: a shortage of water, of which millions of gallons can be required to frack a single well.
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Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East, with a severe shortage of water and rising levels of malnutrition among its population of about 25 million.
Whatever power structure emerges, Yemen's next leaders will face daunting tasks as they inherit a state where oil revenues have declined and the economy is in ruins, where poverty is endemic and a young and rapidly growing population faces a chronic shortage of water.
Like many maternity clinics in rural parts of Africa, the health center in Atitiri is lacking several necessary resources -- shortage of running water, electricity challenges, broken beds and scarcity of medicines all make Madudu's job very difficult.
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The shortage of fresh water supplies is a danger to human health and an impediment to economic progress.
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Kathmandu's residents have learned to live with much more deprivation than fuel rationing--four- to eight-hour power outages daily and an acute shortage of drinking water.
Yet there is a shortage of safe water for drinking and sanitation in many places, not least in the cities to which so many people are now flocking.
Kentucky is said to have more miles of navigable water than any other state in the lower 48, so there is certainly no shortage of adventure opportunities for water enthusiasts.
Even we are facing shortage of food and water because of these environments.
Murrin's other bets imply that after a hiatus during the recession, a Malthusian shortage of grains, irrigation water, gold and oil will reassert itself.
In Sirte itself the complaints are rife as its people try to get back to normal - from a lack of electricity and clean water, to a critical shortage of bank notes.
Most offices, businesses like bars and restaurants, and playgrounds were closed because of the water shortage, reports say.
Earlier this month, as U.S. newspapers warned of a drought-induced bacon shortage, international scientists cautioned that pending water shortages could result in food shortages of all kinds, urging people to eat fewer water-intensive foods (namely, meat).
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Makers of plastic bottles for water and milk, for example, have faced a shortage of high-density polyethylene since the hurricanes.
The water shortage comes just months after hundreds of properties were flooded in Cumbria following severe storms.
For too long the Fed looked at this monetary equivalent of water hoarding and concluded there was no shortage.
An unnamed worker said the shortage of toilets, a lack of a medical centre and water stations were an "absolute disgrace".
He worries that fracking could deplete local water supplies, that there already is a shortage of rental housing and that a large stream of strangers might be more than some locals bargained for.
The union alleges that problems with the introduction of a new computer system have helped exacerbate the water shortage.
The protesters from the nearby community of Mareniyoc blame the mining company for a worsening water shortage and demand the firm supply them with drinking water.
The more optimistic interpretations do not quite hold water either, especially in Chechnya, where Mr Putin unfortunately shows no shortage of decisiveness along with ill-disguised contempt for European peacemongers.
Beijing has about 100 cubic meters of water available per person, well below the U.N. standard of 1, 000 cubic meters per person, a threshold used to measure chronic water shortage.
Refugees are receiving only 11 litres (2.9 gallons) of water a day in 50C (122F) heat, and there is a desperate shortage of toilets, though acknowledged more are now being built.
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