2010-05-25 16:08:53.254 GMT By Cherian Thomas, Unni Krishnan and Sophie Leung May 26 (Bloomberg) — A fight breaks out as student Vikas Dagar jostles with dozens of men, women and children to fill buckets from a truck that brings water twice a week to the village of Jharoda Kalan on the outskirts of New Delhi. [...]

China accounts for approximately 19.5% of the world population but has only 7% of the globe’s freshwater resources. Water efficiency in China is poor compared to its G20 peers, requiring around four times as much water per US$ of GDP created. Two-thirds of China’s 660 cities suffer from water shortages with the situation in 110 [...]