Ningbo-Beilun, Zhejiang, China
Monday, November 2, 2009
Water was another theme of my 5-day trip to China. The hotel awkwardly encouraged us not to waste water ("Warm suggestion!"), and despite the amazing infrastructure changes in China, water remains a critical issue.
In 1987, when I studied in China, every work place and apartment had a huge water boiler that was fired up 2-3 times a day to sterilize drinking water. Twenty-seven years later, those boilers are still hard at work. Pictured here are a long line of thermoses waiting to be filled with freshly boiled water.
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then there was the downtown shopping mall in Ningbo--an enormous affair with water and fountains everywhere. Pictured here--a boy floats in his plastic bubble.
then there was the downtown shopping mall in Ningbo--an enormous affair with water and fountains everywhere. Pictured here--a boy floats in his plastic bubble. Say, how much oxygen is in that thing anyway?
