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China's South to North transfer scheme - Coggle Diagram
China's South to North transfer scheme
Advantages
The Northern part of China has rich mineral and land resources. These could satisfy the demands of the growing industrial cities in the North
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It should prevent over-abstraction in the north, helping to stop land subsidence
The Chinese government is building a $62 billion South-North Water Transfer Project. The project would divert 44.8 billion cubic metres of water per year.
Disadvantages
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If China reduced the existing problems like pollution then there would be no need for such an expensive scheme
At the cost of over $60 billion this project this is a massive financial and environmental risk for China
At the moment it is helping 200,000,000 people 500,000,000 people are going to be helped
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Raising the dam of the Danjiankou Reservoir flooded productive farmland and forced 345,000 people to move. Many received little compensation and have less land and poorly built houses
Although the water should be expensive the government have kept its cost low and are subsidising it, so there is no need for people of industry to change their wasteful water ways!
Water stress in the south will increase because so much water is being diverted. During droughts there won’t be enough drinking water for 30 million local people
435,000 people were forcibly evicted and in total 1,000,000 people have had to move
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What are they doing?
They will link China's four main rivers the Yangtze, Yellow River, Huaihe and Haihe