Beijing’s policy of draining surrounding regions to ease water shortages in the ancient capital is akin to “quenching thirst by drinking poison,” according to a new report by Probe International’s Beijing-based researchers. Now with a 2010 Update.

Click here to read the report, Beijing’s Water Crisis 1949 – 2008 Olympics 2010 Update.

Press about the report:

• Diversion won’t end water crisis, report says
• Going thirsty so Beijing can drink
• Beijing’s water drying up
• Water Supplies for Beijing 2008 Olympics in State of Crisis
• Report predicts dire economic effects of Beijing water crisis
• Beijing’s Water Binge
• Beijing faces collapse due to water crisis: Probe International
• Province supplying Beijing water drying up: state
• Acute Water Shortage May Cause Beijing Exodus
• Beijing ‘may collapse’ over water crisis