Intel Sucks Up Water Amid Drought In China

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| Intel Sucks Up Water Amid Drought In China                                                   |
|   from the nor-any-drop-to-drink dept.                                                       |
|   posted by kdawson on Saturday May 29, @14:30 (Earth)                                       |
|   https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/29/1647249/Intel-Sucks-Up-Water-Amid-Drought-In-China|
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An anonymous reader sends along a Bloomberg piece on [0]Intel and the
coming water wars. "Intel is going head-to-head with businesses like
Coca-Cola to swallow up scarce water resources in the developing world.
According a 2009 report..., 2.4 billion of the world's population lives
in 'water-stressed' countries such as China and India. Chip fabrication
plants in those countries, as well factories such as the soft drink
giant's bottling plants, are swallowing up scarce resources needed by the
1.6 billion people who rely on water for farming. ... Li Haifeng, vice
president of sewage treatment company Beijing Enterprises Water Group,
told Bloomberg, 'Wars may start over the scarcity of water.' China's 1.33
billion citizens each have 2,117 cubic meters of water available to them
per year... In the US, consumers can count on as much as 9,943 cubic
meters."

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