Last year, Greenpeace…discovered that Shenhua’s [Chinese state owned coal company] subsidiary had been over-using water for their coal facility in Inner Mongolia…and confronted them with the evidence. First we faced the censorship of our report but…On April 4 2014, Shenhua met with Greenpeace to say that they have agreed to many of our demands…Shenhua said they would stop taking water from the area where farmers had been left with failed crops and dried up lakes…[T]he fact that an NGO has exposed a state owned company for their environmental actions and got them to back off will send chills down the spines of other big coal companies in China who have previously believed they could operate with impunity…a local campaign can indeed get the companies to comply with the rules on water usage...