Water tables are dropping by a metre or more every year across much of northern China.
Water tables are falling across the north of the country and as aquifers drop, irrigation wells go dry.
Subsidised power encourages relentless pumping of water, so water-intensive crops are grown in drought-prone areas, diminishing water tables.
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In places where thousands of pigs are reared in so called factory farms, the run off from the manure has been known to contaminate water tables.
Separately comes a report that municipal bonds backed by water utilities may also be heading toward a crisis due to stress on water tables around the nation.
The country is consuming groundwater faster than it is being replenished, and the result of the rapid depletion is that water tables are dropping at alarming rates.
Because of lower water-tables and depleted aquifers, many rivers can no longer replenish themselves in the dry season.
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Chairs are broken up by tables with water and chocolate for people in attendance, and there's a rounded stage with a massive projection behind it.
Belu Spring Water began putting its socially responsible water on supermarket shelves and tables in some of Britain's top restaurants in May 2004.
More worldly friends will stop off here for dinner in cool Mimasu-ya, reserving tables overlooking the water, or in the sublime French kaiseki restaurant, Misoguigawa, where a girl in kimono sits by your table throughout the meal, making delectable small talk in impeccable English.
Up to 30 guests can be seated at the room's dozen tables, each adorned with crystal glasses that circle the reproduction absinthe water fountain at the centre.
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