See, for example, Mark Elvin et al., Japanese Studies on the History of Water Control in China. Canberra: Institute of Advanced Studies, ANU, 1994.
3 Chen Yongqi, Wang Tiemin and Qiao Xixian, eds., Huanghe liuyupian queshui chengshi shui ziyuan gongxu yuce (Supply and demand projections for water resources in water-short cities in the Huang He basin). Zhengzhou: Huanghe Shuili Chubanshe, 1997: 11.
4 Liu Changming and He Xiwu, Zhongguo 21 shiji shui wenti fanglue (China's water problem strategy for the 21st century). Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe, 1996: 5.
5 P. William Reidhead, Suchi Gupta and Deepti Joshi, eds. State of India's Environment Report (A Quantitative Analysis). New Delhi: Tata Energy Research Institute, 1996: 12-13. Rajasthan had a per capita water availability of 562 cu.m. in 1990, comparable to north China. Sustaining Water, Easing Scarcity: A Second Update. Washington, D. C.: Population Action International, 1997.
6 Bangladesh experienced a "groundwater revolution" in the 1980s and early 1990s with the installation of shallow tubewells. Mark W. Rosegrant, "Water Resources in the 21st Century: Increasing Scarcity, Declining Quality, and Implications for Action". UNU/IAS Working Paper No. 3. Tokyo: United Nations University, 1996:15.
7 Liu and He, 1996: 101.
8 Huanghe liuyu shuihan zaihai (Flood and drought disasters in the Huang He basin). Zhengzhou: Huanghe Shuili Chubanshe, 1996: 14.
9 Ke Lidan, "Huanghe xiayu duanliu yuanyin fenxi ji duice yanjiu" (An analysis of the causes of flow stoppage in the lower reaches of the Huang He and a study of countermeasures), in Shuilibu Shuizheng Shui Ziyuan Si, Huanghe duanliu ji qi duice (Flow stoppage in the Huang He and its countermeasures). Beijing: Zhongguo Shuili Dianli Chubanshe, 1997: 34; and Huanghe queshui xingshi ji qi duice. Beijing: Shuilibu Shuili Xinxi Zhongxin, 1997: 1-2.
10 Zhongguo shuihan zaihai (China's flood and drought disasters). Beijing:Zhongguo Shuili Shuidian Chubanshe, 1997: 400-401.
11 This sort of "natural" pollution by geochemical processes affecting groundwater has also been identified recently as a major health problem in areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal that rely on groundwater containing arsenic for human consumption.
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