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Intel Sucks Up Water Amid Drought In China

Posted by kdawson on from the nor-any-drop-to-drink dept.

An anonymous reader sends along a Bloomberg piece on 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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  1. Capitalism !! by unity100 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its made of love ! It doesnt matter if you die, as long as you get profits. wait - those who get the profits dont generally die. but hey !

    que agitated, angry downmodding from old soils remnant of reagan era and new free market zealots in 3,2, 1 ....

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    1. Re:Capitalism !! by Darkness404 · · Score: 0, Troll

      So lets see here, your trying to prove a point against capitalism in China which is... Communist. Yeah, its not "true" communism but its sure not pure capitalism.

      Next thing you know we're going to be blaming Apple for Microsoft security problems and PowerPC for flaws in x86.

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    2. Re:Capitalism !! by clarkkent09 · · Score: 0, Troll

      You're right, socialist central planning on the other hand is definitely made of love because it places human rights ahead of profits. Right?

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    3. Re:Capitalism !! by phoenix321 · · Score: 1, Troll

      No all these links have anything to do with communism or socialism, because all these dictatorships and regimes were simply not understanding and properly instituting communism and socialism.

      All those communist parties, communist leaders, communist activists, communist revolutions, communist manifestos, all of them misunderstood Communism and misinterpreted it, no, abused it.

      National Socialists were not socialists, the Communist Party of the Union of Socialistic Soviet Republic had nothing to do with either Communism and Socialism.

      Just claim "If people die, it's not Communism." and then plug your ears and eyes.

      Thousands of people who commit bombings after reading the Quran and praying to Allah day and night have nothing to do with Islam. Yeah. Just like re-education camps, forced labor, mass famine, totalitarian brainwashing and the prison formerly known as North Korea have nothing to do with Communism. It's all just a major misunderstanding. The next, the real Communism, will be so much better than the last one, really.

  2. Re:So in other words... by sznupi · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you did change your pet tech. How come? Come in, the previous ones were so vigorously defended, as the ultimate savior of us all and our decadence...

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  3. China is still Communist? by FatSean · · Score: 0, Troll

    Coulda fooled me, seems more like facism these days.

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