Beijing Olympics, will there be any water
Written by Tim on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 in Beijing, The World Today.
Landlocked Beijing has begun tapping reservoirs, rivers, and canals across eastern China to provide water for this summer’s Olympic Games.
More than 150 million cubic meters (39.6 billion gallons) of water are being diverted from the Yellow River through a network of canals stretching across three provinces to refill a lake south of the historically drought-stricken Chinese capital.
A parallel project is diverting water to the east coast resort of Qingdao, which will host the Olympic sailing competitions.
The current rerouting is just the precursor to a 60-billion-U.S.-dollar hydro-engineering project expected to see three human-carved rivers carry water from southern China to the arid north. (more…)