China’s water diversion project starts to flow to Beijing
£48bn scheme may provide relief to the parched north, but at what cost to the drought-ridden south and its displaced farmers?
On Friday afternoon, China quietly inaugurated one of the biggest engineering projects of all time: the South-North Water Diversion, a £48bn, 2,400km network of canals and tunnels, designed to divert 44.8bn cubic metres of water annually from China’s humid south to its parched, industrialised north.
