• China is home to 20% of the global population yet only has 7% of the world's freshwater resources.¹
• China is projected to move roughly 250 million people (more than the total U.S. urban population) into cities - some of which have not been built yet - within just the next 10-20 years.²
• This will bring total urban population to approximately 900 million people, or roughly 13% of the world's population.²
• In less than ten years, China will have almost one quarter of the world's 400 largest cities.²
• In addition to supporting urban growth, China will need to provide water for 400 million rural residents and meet the tremendous demands from agriculture, energy, and manufacturing sectors.³
  

<sup>1. UN WATER Water and Energy Sustainability Available from: http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/pdf/01_2014_sustainability_eng.pdf
2. The New York Times - "China's Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million into Cities"
3. The Nature Conservancy - https://blog.nature.org/conservancy/2013/07/03/a-thirst-for-growth-fueling-chinas-urban-expansion/</sup>