<p><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">A chronic drought is ravaging farmland. The Gobi Desert is inching south. The Yellow River, the so-called birthplace of Chinese civilization, is so polluted it can no longer supply drinking water. The rapid growth of megacities — 22 million people in Beijing and 12 million in Tianjin alone — has drained underground aquifers that took millenniums to fill. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/world/asia/02water.html?_r=1&amp;ref=water" title="Article">More</a> (Source: The New York Times)</span></p>