China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2
South-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North. Subscribe to TDC: https://www.youtube.com/TheDailyConversation/ More info: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Transfer_Project Like our page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/thedailyconversation Join us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/100134925804523235350/posts Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/thedailyconvo The huge populations filling the megacities in the North have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North. There will be three canals in the project, a 716 mile-long Eastern Canal that will begin at the Yangtze River and snake uphill, with the help of more than 20 pumping stations, to reservoirs in Tianjin. Route two will flow downhill from the Danjiangkou Reservoir on the Han river 785 miles across the North China Plain to Beijing. And the third route is the Big Western Line. It’s still in its planning phase, but it will divert water from the rivers flowing into the Yangtze, sending it to the Yellow River instead. The Central Government has rammed this project through despite many concerns over pollution and the forced relocation of hundreds of thousands of villagers. It’s also late and over budget due to the soaring costs of building bridges and tunnels for the canals to cross the many rivers and highways in its way. Then there are the fears that diverting water from the Yangtze River could cause the world’s third-longest river to run low, devastating those whose livelihoods depend on it. One proposed solution to this problem is to give the Yangtze more water by redirecting rivers in southwestern China. But this would affect India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, potentially causing an international crisis. For the immediate future though, the South-to-North water Transfer Project is a done deal. Following the example of the American West in the previous century, China has completely reshaped its environment using dams and canals, allowing for the arid North to support tens of millions more residents than it otherwise could. Thanks for watching Part II of China’s Future Megaprojects. Subscribe to get the rest of this series delivered to your homepage.
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First and second canal is done, currently under running. The third part still on paper.
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Not a future thing, 1and 2 are finished, 3 won't likely to be carried out.
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so many people in a city is a recipe for dissaster. Think pandemic or big earthquake
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Just a remind, China has 1.4 billion people, four times of US population!
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not very sure if this will be sustainable at all. people are shortsighted.
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Part 2 of our series on China's Future MEGAPROJECTS examines the South-to-North Water Transfer Project:
Watch Part 1: Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b1xlnCaGmI
Part 2: The Grand Canal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2atf6s--w4
Part 3: The World's Largest Airport:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPKXHcN3oQ
Part 4: The High Speed Rail Revolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFpnf5IrM5g
Part 5: The World's Longest Underwater Tunnel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaxuyK4kcpM
Part 6: The World's Biggest Wind Farm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLHlswSuP7I
Part 7: The Nuclear Boom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKVirIsNt5Q
Part 8 (final video in this series): Dueling MEGA-Bridges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OB2X0S-wZI -
Why don't they just focus on making a southern city, a mega city, it would save them so much more work
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cities produce nothing but more governments of mess
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I think forest plantation on the upper part of the Yellow River is more sustainable compared to driving waters from the YangTze River.
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the western influence is diminishing. The rise of china is the redemption of the asian nation. Thumbs up if u agree (Y)
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I guess somebody is not a civil engineer and don't understand why these projects are so important. Just watch NAWAPE videos and get a clue.
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What happend to this series?
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This must play a role in the reason of why china is stepping up aggression in the South China Sea.
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what's the end goal?
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I love your videos but please drink some water before you do a video. that sound you make when opening your mouth is very very hard to listen to. or maybe it's just that your microphone is amazing.
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Watching these megaproject videos gives me so much hope for humanity. So much ambition in all of the projects shown on this channel. Love it!
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I dont get it :/ doesnt the UAE have technology that makes ocean water into drinkable water? if so then how come china doesnt buy this technology and implement it near the shores and pump fresh water for this big city?
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As a bangladeshi,should I be worried?
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This is a short video but a very interesting topic!!
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