China $700 billion water diversion project benefits over 100 million people

[Mista]

So it was a joke, not like this water diversion one being researched and studied seriously for decades and coming out with very detailed plans and budget estimations.

...?

 

[beijingwalker]

70% of water we northerners used is from the south, we Beijingers living in the north are thankful to the south.

 

[lcloo]

The ice on Greenland is melting faster than scientists have predicted, and is going to raise the sea level, and corrode many coastlines in the world.

On the other side of the globe, Chinese are diverting water away from the sea, and with the desert and arid area get to hold more water, and lakes get to fill up, it is good for the world, as this will slow the otherwise a much faster rate of sea level raising. One day in future people will realise this and should be thankful.

Guess none of you ever thought of above.

 

[Mista]

70% of water we northerners used is from the south, we Beijingers living in the north are thankful to the south.

Beijing has to thank the North as well for its economic prosperity lol.

The ice on Greenland is melting faster than scientists have predicted, and is going to raise the sea level, and corrode many coastlines in the world.

On the other side of the globe, Chinese are diverting water away from the sea, and with the desert and arid area get to hold more water, and lakes get to fill up, it is good for the world, as this will slow the otherwise a much faster rate of sea level raising. One day in future people will realise this and should be thankful.

Guess none of you ever thought of above.

That's because it's negligible lol. Freshwater makes up a very small percentage of all water on the planet, much less freshwater (which has already melted from glaciers) diverted here.

Freshwater makes up a very small fraction of all water on the planet. While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. The rest is saline and ocean-based. Even then, just 1 percent of our freshwater is easily accessible, with much of it trapped in glaciers and snowfields. In essence, only 0.007 percent of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 6.8 billion people.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/

 

[Mamadouso]

More long term thinking from China They should divert the river to Xinjiang immediately, it has great potential for agriculture and good connectivity through Central Asia & Pakistan.

 

[JSCh]

It may not be possible to knock out Qinling mountain, but this is possible, a nearly 100 km long water diversion tunnel that hole through under the Qinling mountain. To be completed by 2020.

China builds Asia's longest water diversion tunnel | CCTV English
CCTV English
Published on Aug 29, 2018

China is building Asia's longest water diversion tunnel that has the biggest construction challenges: The Qinling Water Diversion Tunnel. With the completion of construction, the tunnel will alleviate water shortages in Xi'an and the Guangzhong Basin.


There are people that say the following project that was just approved this year is a test project for one of the solution of Tibet to Xinjiang water diversion project because of similarity in engineering challenge.

Water project to quench thirsty cities in Yunnan
By LI LEI | China Daily | Updated: 2019-02-01 10:04

Jinsha River in Northwest Yunnan province, Nov 21, 2018. [Photo/IC]

The Ministry of Water Resources said it invested more than 5 billion yuan ($745 million) in 2018 in a water diversion project that aims to relieve severe water shortages in the central part of Yunnan province.

Another 7 billion yuan is expected to be invested this year, according to a news release provided by the ministry.

The project, approved in March, aims to draw water from a section of the Jinsha River in Yunnan's northwest to its central cities, including Chuxiong, Yuxi and Kunming. The area, which contains about one-third of the province's population, contributed more than half of the province's GDP, but has been severely hampered by a lack of water resources.

The total cost of the project is estimated at 82.6 billion yuan, and the time for construction will be 96 months, the ministry said. Construction has begun at about 90 percent of the planned project sites, it said.

When finished, the project is expected to break the bottleneck of economic development in the region, and help improve its aquatic ecosystem.

By the ministry's estimate, about 3.4 billion cubic meters of water will be diverted to the region annually by 2040 as a supplementary resource for residents and industries.

The diversion is the largest of its kind in scale and investment in Southwest China. As a result of the region's difficult geology, which is unfriendly to construction, it is also among the most demanding projects ever to be undertaken, the ministry said.

In addition to supplementing the region's water supply, the 664-kilometer diversion project will help improve the ecology of rivers and lakes, it said.

The Jinsha River is an upper section of the Yangtze River, the longest in Asia and the third-longest in the world. It flows through the provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan in western China.

 

[beijingwalker]

It may not be possible to knock out Qinling mountain, but this is possible, a nearly 100 km long water diversion tunnel that hole through under the Qinling mountain. To be completed by 2020.

China builds Asia's longest water diversion tunnel | CCTV English
CCTV English
Published on Aug 29, 2018

China is building Asia's longest water diversion tunnel that has the biggest construction challenges: The Qinling Water Diversion Tunnel. With the completion of construction, the tunnel will alleviate water shortages in Xi'an and the Guangzhong Basin.


There are people that say the following project that was just approved this year is a test project for one of the solution of Tibet to Xinjiang water diversion project because of similarity in engineering challenge.

Water project to quench thirsty cities in Yunnan
By LI LEI | China Daily | Updated: 2019-02-01 10:04

Jinsha River in Northwest Yunnan province, Nov 21, 2018. [Photo/IC]

The Ministry of Water Resources said it invested more than 5 billion yuan ($745 million) in 2018 in a water diversion project that aims to relieve severe water shortages in the central part of Yunnan province.

Another 7 billion yuan is expected to be invested this year, according to a news release provided by the ministry.

The project, approved in March, aims to draw water from a section of the Jinsha River in Yunnan's northwest to its central cities, including Chuxiong, Yuxi and Kunming. The area, which contains about one-third of the province's population, contributed more than half of the province's GDP, but has been severely hampered by a lack of water resources.

The total cost of the project is estimated at 82.6 billion yuan, and the time for construction will be 96 months, the ministry said. Construction has begun at about 90 percent of the planned project sites, it said.

When finished, the project is expected to break the bottleneck of economic development in the region, and help improve its aquatic ecosystem.

By the ministry's estimate, about 3.4 billion cubic meters of water will be diverted to the region annually by 2040 as a supplementary resource for residents and industries.

The diversion is the largest of its kind in scale and investment in Southwest China. As a result of the region's difficult geology, which is unfriendly to construction, it is also among the most demanding projects ever to be undertaken, the ministry said.

In addition to supplementing the region's water supply, the 664-kilometer diversion project will help improve the ecology of rivers and lakes, it said.

The Jinsha River is an upper section of the Yangtze River, the longest in Asia and the third-longest in the world. It flows through the provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan in western China.

China is changing the face of the earth, no countries had ever taken on so many super massive engineering challenges than China during the whole human history.

 

[Mista]

It may not be possible to knock out Qinling mountain, but this is possible, a nearly 100 km long water diversion tunnel that hole through under the Qinling mountain. To be completed by 2020.

By the ministry's estimate, about 3.4 billion cubic meters of water will be diverted to the region annually by 2040 as a supplementary resource for residents and industries.

Blowing up Qinling is a joke lol. It's too expensive and environmentally damaging.

Actually with increasing urbanization in the world, it is getting more efficient to leverage on water technologies such as desalination and water recycling.

In Singapore we aren't blessed with large rivers like China, so we are building hundreds of kilometers of deep tunnel superhighways to transport and recycle used water. When completed in the 2020s, it can provide us more than 500 million cubic meters of water annually.

We are also leveraging on desalination technology, which can produce more than 200 million cubic meters annually.

Currently, we have three desalination plants with a combined capacity of 130 mgd that can meet up to 30% of Singapore’s current water demand. Two more desalination plants will be ready by 2020.

https://www.pub.gov.sg/dtss/phase1
https://www.pub.gov.sg/dtss/phase2

 

[Han Patriot]

Blowing up Qinling is a joke lol. It's too expensive and environmentally damaging.

Actually with increasing urbanization in the world, it is getting more efficient to leverage on water technologies such as desalination and water recycling.

In Singapore we aren't blessed with large rivers like China, so we are building hundreds of kilometers of deep tunnel superhighways to transport and recycle used water. When completed in the 2020s, it can provide us more than 500 million cubic meters of water annually.

We are also leveraging on desalination technology, which can produce more than 200 million cubic meters annually.

https://www.pub.gov.sg/dtss/phase1
https://www.pub.gov.sg/dtss/phase2

China actually invests alot in recycling and desalination. The problem is we have 1.4 billion people, you need to understand the complexity of the problem. Singapore model can only be applied to some coastal cities.

 

[Darth Vader]

This is what we need in Pakistan, in order to make our arid areas of Balochistan, FATA habitable.

Pakistan lacks on Few Areas.
1st Investment
2nd Tech and Human Resources
3rd Long-Term thinking

Majority of politicans dont care about next day heck next year its more about Vote.
Pakistan has not started a single long term project which will benefit the next generation,
Billion Tree Tsunami its a good initiative but thats was from a regional gov not from the state and there were no proper check and balances as simply planting random trees can destroy the ecosystem.

Thar, Balochistan can be used for many things rather than just Food for that Pakistan already has Punjab & Sindh
Problem is Punjab and Sindh are being overpopulated and modern cities are destroying the land which could have been used for future food production. Pakistan needs to limit and redevelop and repopulate newer smaller greener cities build them in low density area and connect them.

 

[Mista]

China actually invests alot in recycling and desalination. The problem is we have 1.4 billion people, you need to understand the complexity of the problem. Singapore model can only be applied to some coastal cities.

Increasing urbanization makes adopting such technologies feasible as it gets more cost efficient. Beijing for example is suitable to adopt new water technologies IMO, instead of diverting water resources from the South.

But of course I know it's still not cost efficient for the hundreds of million of people living in the countryside.

 

[beijingwalker]

South water in Beijing, not only for drinking water, Beijing's lakes, rivers and parks are filled with clean south water and Beijing's underground water level first time in the history keeps rising. We are very grateful.

 

[Mista]

South water in Beijing, not only for drinking water, Beijing's lakes, rivers and parks are filled with clean south water and Beijing's underground water level first time in the history keeps rising. We are very grateful.

Honest question, does the South have enough water resources to divert to Beijing and the North?

I chanced upon some comments on Weibo yesterday, and some Southerners are complaining that some of the rivers in their province have dried up because of the diversion to Beijing. I don't really believe Beijing uses that much water from the South?

https://www.weibo.com/1638782947/HzLEsaexj

All I can gather on this issue is only a report from BBC, which I don't know how accurate it is.
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2014/09/140910_china_water_economy

 

[hiseen]

Honest question, does the South have enough water resources to divert to Beijing and the North?

I chanced upon some comments on Weibo yesterday, and some Southerners are complaining that some of the rivers in their province have dried up because of the diversion to Beijing. I don't really believe Beijing uses that much water from the South?

https://www.weibo.com/1638782947/HzLEsaexj

All I can gather on this issue is only a report from BBC, which I don't know how accurate it is.
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2014/09/140910_china_water_economy

It only needs one picture.

PS:I'm from the south. Some individual complaints always exist, If you look at the whole country, that's the only way. It's also very smart and practical.

 

[beijingwalker]

China is one very united country, that's no divisive north and south issues like in other countries. regional leaders always being rotated between different provinces and cities, so regional interests are almost non existent, only national interests.