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The South–North Water Transfer Project, also translated as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, [1] is a multi-decade infrastructure mega-project in China that aims to channel 44.8 cubic kilometers (44.8 billion cubic meters) of fresh water each year [2] from the Yangtze River in southern China to the more arid and industrialized north through three canal systems: [3]
The Dahuofang Water Tunnel (Chinese: ... South–North Water Transfer Project; References This page was last edited on 21 June 2024, at 15:29 (UTC). Text is ...
More fresh water for Canada and the United States to stabilize Great Lakes and St. Lawrence water levels and to relieve water shortages and droughts in western Canada and in the south-west U.S. and in particular to halt the depletion and start the replenishment of the Ogallala Aquifer via water export; Improved fisheries and shipping in Hudson Bay.
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The South–North Water Transfer Project was developed primarily to divert water from the Yangtze river. The project is to help alleviate water shortages for citizens in these areas in the process of sustaining water consumption in sectors that use large sums of water, such as industry and agriculture. [17]
The project to turn Siberian rivers goes back to the 1830s, when tsarist surveyor Alexander Shrenk proposed it [2] when the big canal engineering projects were conceived (i.e. the Suez and Panama canals). The project of turning some of the flow of the northern rivers to the south was discussed, on a smaller scale, in the 1930s.
Water in the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River flows free Wednesday, Sept. 30, several years after the removal of the Middle Fork diversion dam in Whatcom County.
List of State Water Project water contractors [73] Agency or entity Annual allocation Share acre.ft dam 3; Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District 80,619 99,442 1.9% Alameda County Water District 42,000 52,000 1.0% Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency 144,844 178,662 3.5% Butte County: 27,500 33,900 0.6% Castaic Water ...