{"id":6450,"date":"2012-01-12T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:20:44","slug":"chinas-water-diversion-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/01\/12\/chinas-water-diversion-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"China's Water Diversion Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>China recently announced a plan to invest $10 billion to divert water to the country’s cities. This is on top of $22 billion already spent. But are these water diversion projects a good idea?<\/p>\n In the past few decades, China’s population has increasingly moved into the cities, leaving those cities searching for enough water. Building reservoirs, pulling water from rivers, and draining aquifers isn’t enough for some of the larger cities in the arid regions, so massive water diversion projects are underway.<\/p>\n A great number of the water projects in the past have used water from the Yellow River to supply cities and agricultural needs. However, with several tributaries running nearly dry and the flow of the Yellow River being affected, plans to supplement the water in the Yellow River with water from the Yangtze River are forming.<\/p>\n While the projects help drive the GDP of China, and the engineering feats are remarkable \u2013 water flows uphill in several water transfer projects \u2013 the cost to the end users often proves too high.<\/p>\n