.... http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/070416_Issue/070406_LE08_wide.hlarge.jpg Diego Azubel / EPA-Corbis Trickle Down: Chinese walk on the dry river bed of the Jialing River. Droughts have left some areas of China facing shortages of drinking water. By Orville Schell Newsweek April 16, 2007 issue - The view from the top of the luxurious ...

.... Fifth, the proposed water and sediment regulation will not solve the problem of silt build up inside the reservoir. Although the Central Government has built and will build dams upstream on the Jialing and Jinsha Rivers to impede sand and gravel from entering the TGD, this is not a final solution, but merely postponing an impending disaster, which in turn, will create a more serious ...