Water Article (Extra Credit)
I found this article and thought it was so interesting. If there is no water crisis then why is China having to redirect its water sources? The article is dated on April 5, 2005 and I found it at http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=40575.
Just please keep this in mind the next time you leave the water running.
China announced plans Tuesday to relocate 400,000 people to make way for a US$60 billion (euro50 billion) network of canals to supply its dry north with water from the wetter south.
It will be China's second major forced relocation of residents, coming after 1.3 million people were moved to make way for the vast Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in the southwest.
The canals are to move water hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the Yangtze to Beijing and other parts of the north. The government says building the South-North Water Diversion Project could take up to 50 years and cost more than 500 billion yuan (US$60 billion; euro50 billion).
China says it ranks among the world's driest countries and providing enough water for its 1.3 billion people, as well as farms and industry, is a chronic government worry.
Just please keep this in mind the next time you leave the water running.
China announced plans Tuesday to relocate 400,000 people to make way for a US$60 billion (euro50 billion) network of canals to supply its dry north with water from the wetter south.
It will be China's second major forced relocation of residents, coming after 1.3 million people were moved to make way for the vast Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in the southwest.
The canals are to move water hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the Yangtze to Beijing and other parts of the north. The government says building the South-North Water Diversion Project could take up to 50 years and cost more than 500 billion yuan (US$60 billion; euro50 billion).
China says it ranks among the world's driest countries and providing enough water for its 1.3 billion people, as well as farms and industry, is a chronic government worry.
