Beijing to tap water from thousands of kilometers away

[Oldman1]

In February, Qiu Baoxing, the vice minister of housing and urban-rural development, said the water diversion project was unsustainable and that Beijing would be better off relying on desalination technology and saving rain water.

Source: Beijing to tap water from thousands of kilometers away

Why not follow that?

 

[beijingwalker]

In February, Qiu Baoxing, the vice minister of housing and urban-rural development, said the water diversion project was unsustainable and that Beijing would be better off relying on desalination technology and saving rain water.

Source: Beijing to tap water from thousands of kilometers away

Why not follow that?

We will do both, one project at a time

 

[key-CN]

It's something I can not tell right from wrong，Southern Agricultural indeed affected.No recent rains in southern China.
Beijing is the capital，Sometimes overbearing comparison.But since the North severe water shortages，Can only do so.
Northern impoundment repair should plant more trees. Southern Water is not inexhaustible.

 

[beijingwalker]

It's something I can not tell right from wrong，Southern Agricultural indeed affected.No recent rains in southern China.
Beijing is the capital，Sometimes overbearing comparison.But since the North severe water shortages，Can only do so.
Northern impoundment repair should plant more trees. Southern Water is not inexhaustible.

With the successful completing of North South water diversion projects , Chinese engineers gained rich experience and know how to take on Mighty Himalayas, the water tower of Asia.

 

[jamahir]

"(Reuters) - The water coming out of Beijing taps later this month may have traveled more than 1,400 kilometers, transported along a series of canals and pipelines that form part of the world's biggest water transfer project."

that is wrong... the biggest irrigation project in history is the "great man made river" project of the libyan jamahiriya... which transported water from under the libyan desert to the urban areas.

or maybe reuters did not want to acknowledge the libyan achievements.

"Some critics have said the project is yet another example of China trying to engineer its way out of a problem that could be largely solved through better policies,"

correct... many issues in the world can be solved politically, be they traffic problems or india's ganga river clean-up.

"such as a tiered pricing system for water"

that is nonsense... water is a nature-gven human right and should not be bought or sold... the chinese communist party should know this.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Even after this project, China still lacks water. Future Chinese leaders need to

1. Create more water desalination plants near the coast like the one Tianjin.
2. Clean the yellow river, as well as water from the hundreds of river around China so the water can be used.
3. Conserve rain water better.
4. More pipeline to transfer rain water from south to the dry area of China, since all those water end up going back to the Pacific anyways.