China’s South-North Water Transfer Project: An Unsustainable Diversion

The South-North Water Transfer Project represents an impressive feat in human engineering to bring between 4 and 20 percent of Yangzi river water to the water-scarce North China. However, as Britt Crow-Miller warns, the “band aid” solution could have lasting negative effects for South China communities in years to come.



Britt Crow-Miller Assistant Professor, Portland State University, Oregon, USA via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1wftI5d