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Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews In recent years, China has had more serious flood disasters. China's per capita water resource is less than 1/3 of the world average, nearly 2/3 of China's cities suffer from water shortage. Some experts stated that the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) policy mistakes in the past 60 years to excessively build reservoirs and dams had resulted in many abandoned reservoirs, which form debris during the rainy seasons, and cause more serious water resource problems. According to a Chinese media report on July 10, about 200 million people in China drink unsafe water. Each year, China is short of 50 billion cubic meters of water. German-based doctor of engineering Wang Weiluo pointed out that one cause of China's water shortage is the CCP's policy to excessively build reservoirs and dams in the past 60 years. Dr. Wang Weiluo: In the period from 1949 to the present, 50% of all reservoirs and dams built in the world were in China. China now has over 41,000 reservoirs. This is not safe. Wang said China has 86,000 registered reservoirs and dams, 40% of which are labeled as "dangerous." In 1975, 230,000 people died due to the collapse of over 50 reservoirs and dams along the Huai River. During the rainy seasons, people do not dare to use the reservoirs to store water. Reservoirs are used only in drought seasons to generate power. This is very different from the rest of the world. In addition to the over 86,000 registered reservoirs and dams, there are many small reservoirs. Those that can generate power and earn profits belong to local governments or outsourced by local governments to private companies; those that are not profitable are abandoned. Wang: In 1949, on China's 9.6 million square km of land, there were less than 30 reservoirs. The ancient Chinese didn't promote the use of reservoirs. Wang said, in western countries, managers of reservoirs are required to clean up outdated reservoirs and dismantle the dams. In China, however, abandoned dams are removed only from the government's records. A mudslide caused by heavy rainfall this year in Yueyang City of Hunan Province caused more than 40 deaths. Local villagers said the causes of the mudslide were the removal of forests in the past years, mining in the Dayun Mountain and other areas, and the collapse of a neglected reservoir by the heavy flood. The local authorities later denied the existence of the reservoir. A 2010 mud slide in Zhouqu County of Gansu Province destroyed 8 dams, one of which had been abandoned. Local authorities later also denied the existence of the reservoirs. So, why not tear down these dangerous abandoned reservoirs? Wang said that the reason is very simple - it costs money. To speed up the authorities' agenda, demolition cost was not budgeted for any reservoir, including the Three Gorges Dam. China has been having a severe drought since mid-March. In June, floods took place in the mid and low ranges of Yangtze. China News reported on June 27, within a few days, Jiangxi Province turned from being droughty to flooded, with millions of people suffering. A large number of houses collapsed and farmland flooded. General Engineer Zhang Wenjie of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Water Resources said, although there are over 9,700 reservoirs in Jiangxi, only over 200 have the capacity to store water, others are too small. And over 8,000 of the reservoirs are on the verge of collapse, and therefore cannot store water. According to the report, Yan Bang, deputy director of Mountain, Rivers and Lakes Resources of Jiangxi Province, said that although the forest coverage of Jiangxi is above 60%, its forests' water storage capacity is insufficient, so the rainwater flows on the ground. In addition, the province's water management is not integrated, with all areas fragmented and managing on their own. The government only considers profit instead of focusing on the conservation of water resources when building reservoirs. NTD reporter Zhao Xinzhi, Zeng Yaoxian and Guo Jing 《神韵》2011世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/