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You could catch the water in a bucket to use for a top-loader washing machine or to flush the toilet, while you're waiting for it to warm up.

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Taiyangneng (solar heating systems) can be wasteful but need not be. Ours has a small wind driven pump on the roof that constantly circulates the water around the house, so that there is always hot water throughout the system, close to every tap.

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On not wasting water: a simple thing that anyone can do who has a bathtub is to leave the water for baths, showers, washing clothes, etc. in the tub and then using it to flush the toilet.

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I have 2 balconies in my apartment so I have a small garden. I compost all my vegetable waste and I feed it to the worms in my worm garden. Over the years I have put all this into the red Yunnan dirt that I got from outside and now my soil is rich, loose and black.

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I recently undertook a bike trip to 'Big Tool' and put some pictures up of the same valley. It's amazing how dreamy it is.

Check them out (especially the gallery at the end):

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Later, I heard that Daju used to be quite busy but the requirement to pay 200 RMB per person to simply use the road next to Yulong reduced the influx of tourists to a trickle. There is still an establishment rocking a "Best restaurant in all of China" sign, it seems to be mostly used for playing Mahjong as was the hotel we were staying in. Surprising they weren't out of business yet.

The next day we crossed the Yangtze and mounted on the other side. This also yields interesting pictures of Daju.

See: www.worldofnonging.com/[...]

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Great hike Adam. The 2 opening photos of Daju valley are exactly what i wanted to see for assessing upper winds to fly Yulong mountain on paraglider. I instantly recognized Yulong's pointy N.E. end from studying that valley on google-earth so many times.
As for getting there you also answered some of my questions and suspicions.

Adam you are a true pioneer.

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Even wiki is equally inept - The Ludila Dam is an under construction gravity dam on the Jinsha River near Lijiang in Yunnan province, China. Construction on the dam began in 2007 and was halted in June 2009 by the Ministry of Environmental Protection after it was being constructed without approval.

Near Lijiang? I can name at least 3 prefectures in Yunnan that are near Lijiang.

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Nothing annoys me more than reading an article that does not clearly answer the 5Ws. When the reader has more questions after reading an article that is proof to me of poor writing.

Is this dam in Lijiang or Dali? I am sure this dam has to belong to a certain county.

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It is good. Some parents such as single woman are very poor and cannot support a child properly even if they want to.

Then what is the result? Another generation miserable?

This is the modern humanitarian concept to solve the modern society problem. In the old days the family or villagers can help, now many people have no one, particularly the poor people forced from village to city and living on the street.

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The more damns they have on a river, the more potential for catastrophic failure. You can imagine what would happen if a dam in the upper reaches of a river experiences catastrophic failure, the resulting surge of water to the next dam will likely cause that one to collapse creating a massive domino effect with an unparalleled level of cascading destruction. And the Jinsha river is set to have 11 damns on it, with another 11 on an upper reach of the river, the TongTian, extending into Tibet.

To hear they are building dams that cannot even handle the amount of water that occurs in the first year causing a potential collapse is mind boggling. What happens when they get a particularly bad rainfall year and/or and earthquake? Utter devastation awaits...