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Q: China is rerouting a river?
So apparently, Northern China is really thirsty and needs more water. So they've decided to reroute part of a river to flow to the North. Where it will cross another river, they dug a huge tunnel. They're currently gathering water in a reservoir, and relocating anyone that will be in the way of the river's new path. Doesn't this sound similar to...oh, I don't know...the Three Gorges Dam? Wasn't that also a questionable project? I'm pretty sure I've heard that that might be part of the reason why China has a drought now. I have a feeling that the more they mess with their water sources, the worse it will turn out for them. After all, who says that Southern China has so much excess water that they can just divert it elsewhere? It's supposed to be complete within the next three years. What do you think? Will this solve Northern China's water shortages? Or is this an ecological disaster waiting to happen?
12 years 27 weeks ago in Health & Safety - Beijing
What? You're worried that a massive disruption in the flow of nature will be an ecological disaster? The Great Party would never do anything that they haven't put full thought, time and money into. Of course they have planned out and eliminated all possible bad outcomes. They aren't just trying to do something that looks impressive on paper but will fall about because they cut too many corners and rushed it too much. There is no way this could be a bigger scale version of the high speed trains.
This has been happening for decades. Most of China's mega-cities are in the central plains which also happens to be the region most prone to drought. They divert water resources from surrounding provinces which leads to a water shortage and hurts farmers, leading to poor harvest, raising food prices. This is becoming a huge problem and is contributing greatly to the desertification occurring in the north and west.
