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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.
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Choose moderation and unburden the earth December 21, 2020, 7:52 PM IST
By Narayani Ganesh
A new year never fails to inspire us to get on those weighing scales and make a solemn, earnest resolution to shed the extra kilos. Walk regularly, eat right, exercise, are all on the to-do list at least for a couple of weeks until it all gets forgotten in the hurly burly of life. But what of the weight, the burden, we’ve been heaping on Planet Earth? Do we have any thoughts on shedding those extra kilos before we paint ourselves into a corner?
According to scientists researching human impact on Earth, the mass of all human-created things including built-up infrastructure, vehicles and all manner of manufactured goods, now “exceeds the weight of all living things on the planet.” Not only that, using a combination of computational and experimental synthetic biology tools and satellite imagery, systems biologist Ron Milo of the Weizmann Institute of Science and his tea