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The Danjiangkou dam in central China’s Hubei province was raised to increase the size of the adjacent reservoir, and aims to provide water from central regions of China to Beijing in one of the most ambitious engineering projects in Chinese history.
Can the South-North Water Transfer Project and Industry Co-Exist?
October 19, 2015
By Huw Pohlner, a recent graduate of Oxford University’s MPhil in Geography and the Environment. This article was first published by chinadialogue.
Sixty-two years after Chairman Mao first envisioned the South-North Water Transfer project, the Middle Route (SNWT-MR) formally began transferring supplies of water from Danjiangkou reservoir on the border of Hubei and Henan in December 2014.