China's peasants look to the skies

摘要

If the Andhra Pradesh principles point the way to a reasonably equable future, they will have to be adopted not only throughout South Asia but also in China, where the water available to each person is only a quarter of the world average. In the rain-starved north, the availability per person is only a quarter of that in the south. Yet this is where almost half China's population lives, and where most of its maize, wheat and vegetables are grown.