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BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The construction of a project linking China's two mega water infrastructures -- the Three Gorges project and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project -- started Thursday, a new move to further transfer water to the country's dry north and improve its national water network.
Work officially began on a 58-billion-yuan ($8.7 billion) project on Thursday that will significantly boost China's ability to divert water to the dry northern parts of the country, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.
Beijing’s annual water consumption has reached 3.6 billion cubic meters, according to statistics released by the Beijing Water Authority, far more than the 2.1 billion cubic meters locally available.The per capita annual water availability is now around 120 cubic meters, well below the United Nations absolute water scarcity threshold, and puts China’s capital city in a
BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The construction of a project to channel water from China Yangtze River to the Hanjiang River will start by the end of this month,
Like so many of Mao’s pronouncements, it sounded simple. “The South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little water and bringing it up might do the trick.” And thus, in 1952, the foundation was laid for what four decades later would become China’s most ambitious engineering project—a scheme to haul some 45 billion cubic meters of