1.0 link 100818 <![CDATA[Tibetan Plateau Water Reserves at Risk]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-carl-ganter/tibetan-plateau-water-res_b_100818.html Over at Circle of Blue WaterNews, we're reporting today on another ingredient to consider in the context of the China-Tibet conflict. Keith Schneider and C.T. Pope write that the Tibetan Plateau's vast reserves of glacial freshwater, which supply Asia's most populous regions, are both at risk and are emerging as an issue in the increasingly tense political and cultural strife between China and Tibet.

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"At least 500 million people in Asia and 250...

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