Beijing’s bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics could deplete existing water resources, according to an International Olympic Committee report.
“Reliance on artificial snowmaking would require diversion of water from existing reservoirs and may impact other land uses,” the IOC evaluation commission said Monday after visiting the city in March. The “scale of regional air quality issues is very significant.”
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IOC members will choose between Beijing and Almaty in Kazakhstan after presentations by both cities in Kuala Lumpur on July 31. Oslo; Stockholm; Krakow, Poland; and Lviv, Ukraine, all dropped out of the …read more
Source: Mashable
