Online International Doing Business in Asia Current Article China's Massive Water Demands Outstrip Supply China is facing a water crisis unlike any that has been encountered by a developing nation. However, no other developing nation has more than 23 percent of the world's population, with about the same amount of water as Canada, and a population 100 times greater. When Steve Cavanaugh decided to go international, he had no idea that his first project work in Iasi, Romania, would be a model for water regulating authorities across the country and else-where in Central and Eastern Europe. But Cavanaugh's experience in Europe perhaps was uncon-ventional from the start. Environmental Firms Look Overseas for Opportunities Of the world's more than six billion people, one-fifth do not have access to safe and affordable drinking water, and half do not have adequate sanitation services.
Major cities are showcases for development gone wrong.
In many cases, urban areas have developed so rapidly that they are being choked by their own economic success. The Filipino economy weathered the 1997-1998 Asia financial crisis and is beginning to show healthy signs of renewed growth, projected at 3 to 4 percent gross national product this year. Chemical contamination impacts different media - air, water and land. Back to International Gateway Table of Contents For more information about environmental issues in the United States, please visit our homepage .