Case study: China's south- North Transfer Project
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- Case study: China's south- North Transfer Project
- Project began in 2003 and involves building 3 canals to run across the eastern, middle and western parts of Chin and link the country's main rivers
- Benefits
- Transfer 44.8 billion m3 per year
- Central government to pay 60% of the cost
- Water conservation, improved irrigation, pollution treatments and environmental project
- Will supply big cities like Beijing
- Costs
- Significant ecological and environmental impacts along the waterways
- Resettlement of people will be needed
- Declining water quality
- will cost $ 62 billion
- will takes 50 years to complete
- Restoration
- At a local scale this can involve restoring meanders, replanting vegetation and using sustainable methods to manage water courses for people and the environment
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