She speculates, however, that they used relatively clean groundwater to meet Olympic demand.
The government is spending nearly $90m on water-diversion schemes to satisfy Olympic demand.Some experts already grumble about the huge water-consumption of existing ski facilities around the capital (equal to the annual water-use of more than 40,000 residents, according to Hu Kanping, an environmentalist).
OLYMPIC sport demands many years of preparation, and not just for the athletes.
An economically struggling city, whose people made it vocally clear the Olympics were unwelcome, has spent much of its hosting period being dug at for failing to provide the five-star international tourist experience and immaculate security that today's modern Olympic tourist demands.
All this decaying authenticity hit the buffers when the Olympic imperative demanded a major transport hub.
FIS spurned the tours' offer of a joint ranking system for the Olympic qualifiers, demanding instead that prospective Olympians compete in its own slopestyle events, which many professional riders avoid, regarding them as second-rate.
His own athletic career in sailing had ended, but as an Olympic official, he demanded that Belgium compete.
As a world-class event, the Olympic Games always demand world-class technology, with costs that match.
Analysts say that Comcast can help to monetize its rights fees by selling Olympic video-on-demand packages to its millions of broadband customers and that Olympic advertisers could flock to reach its millions of cable and broadband subscribers.
NBC's Web site for the games, NBCOlympics.com, does provide every Olympic event on demand in full after it has been shown on TV, though Web users must be subscribers to participating cable or satellite providers.
