Since returning from China another image has begun to recur alongside the Beijing water calligrapher.
Whatever the truth is, we shall find out at the Beijing Water Cube on November 27, so stay tuned.
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Roberts' incredible success inside the Beijing Water Cube in September was rewarded with the honour of carrying the Great Britain flag at the Paralympics closing ceremony.
In Beijing, water rates for home use start at just one yuan (about 12 cents) per cubic metre, far below cost, with heavy users paying a bit more.
Nongfu Spring, one of the China's biggest water producers, is suing Beijing Times for alleging that its bottled water did not meet national water quality standards, but instead adhered to a lower provincial standard.
Nonetheless, his home is comfortable and seals out water and Beijing's famous dust storms, Meyer said.
Authorities order the removal of a massive illegal rubbish landfill near Miyun Reservoir, which supplies about two thirds of Beijing's drinking water.
Beijing's average domestic water-consumption per person has barely changed in the past decade even though prices more than doubled between 2001 and 2004.
Ma Jun, a water specialist in Beijing, says that since the 1950s China has been digging ever deeper wells, and building ever more dams, canals, and water diversion projects.
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The company is China's largest housing contractor and built the futuristic Water Cube for the Beijing Olympics.
However, Beijing's environment bureau says water quality has "not been affected so far" by the illegal dump, Xinhua adds.
Athletes are training there to play water polo in the Beijing Olympics.
In the rest of the country -- even the country's capital, Beijing -- residents boil their water or buy it in bottles.
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.
"The draft law it is really trying to tackle the issue in a proactive way, trying to tackle the pollution at its source, " said Ma Jun, a prominent environmentalist in Beijing and author of China's Water Crisis.
In China Hyflux now has water projects in 20 cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
In the Para sport 50m freestyle S9 it was Du Toit, who competed at the Beijing Olympics alongside able-bodied swimmers in the 10km open water event, who won gold in a time of 29.17 seconds.
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Patten, 21, is no stranger to long distance swimming, having come third in the 10km open water swim and making the final of the 800m freestyle in Beijing.
With water already in short supply in the northern half of the country, Beijing is alarmed by the cost of solutions like diversion projects and desalination.
Beijing Times says authorities must also act quickly to introduce acceptable quality standards for bottled drinking water to allay public fears about contamination from deteriorating air and water quality as well as polluting industries.
His past dealings with water-filled goggles came in handy when that recurred during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing in the 200-meter butterfly.
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