Water transfer scheme
South–North Water Transfer Project
The largest water transfer scheme ever built, moving water from the Yangtze basin to the water-scarce North China Plain along routes over a thousand kilometres long.
Key facts
- Design transfer
- on the order of 40 billion m³/yr at full development
- Routes
- Eastern, Central and a planned Western route
- Central route length
- approximately 1,270 km
- People resettled
- Hundreds of thousands
Relationships
- Located in: China
Related intelligence
Sources
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted
- OpenStreetMap Foundation — OpenStreetMap. Open — attribution required · Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0