Jakarta Post: The Chinese government has made a huge effort to improve air quality and beautify Beijing for the Olympics that open on Friday (8 August). But it cannot apply a short-term ‘fix’ to another problem that visitors to the Games will not see – the steady depletion of underground water supplies in northern China, where the capital is located. A study published in June by Probe International, a Canadian environmental research group, found that over two-thirds of Beijing’s water is being …