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ClimateWire: The plaza outside Shenzhen's Mass Sports Center looks like any you can find in Chinese cities. But if you look closely, you can still see a critical difference.
Unlike most infrastructures in China, the plaza here has no drains. When rain falls lightly, the water either filters down to the underground through permeable pavements or is soaked up by gardens designed to catch rain. Almost no rainwater flows into street gutters around this plaza. During a period when many big cities -- most recently......
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China bets on ‘sponge cities’ to cope with flooding and drought
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 17th, 2015
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