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A geography professor at Melbourne University talks about the limitations of water diversion during a time of extreme weather events

Germany-based water conservation expert Wang Weiluo says top-down government policies wreck the local ecosystem.

There are work-arounds the U.S. can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-needed infrastructure that was left out of the two recent spending bills. Congress has passed two major infrastructure bills in the last year, but imminent needs remain. The 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law chiefly focused on conventional highway programs, and the Inflation Reduction Act

Although East China’s Jiangsu Province and Central China’s Hubei Province, two main water sources for China's south-to-north water diversion project, have seen extreme heat waves recently, experts said it will not affect the overall operation of the water project, which will play a key role in transferring water from China's water-rich south to the arid north.

Satellite images show extent of severe drought along the Yangtze River in China