China plans for future supply of clean water -- 11 August 08

Most Olympic visitors will leave Beijing unaware that water is this city's most critical environmental challenge.

The government has embarked on a controversial and costly engineering project to transfer water from south to north to feed the Chinese capital and the industrial heartland.

Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan reports from the Danjiangkou reservoir in Hubei province.

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[cruisedragon]

The west says that China is the number one world polluter but they also forget to say that China has the world's largest forest restoration project and is the 2nd largest green energy creater and consumer

[Exult]

The Chinese have always been building giant Engineering Projects. The Great Wall may have been the most well known, but historical damns, dikes and canals have been vital to the development of China's past golden ages. Hydraulic engineers are looked upon with great awe to China, it's no surprise Hu Jintao's Bachelors was in Hydraulic Engineering.

[charles789789]

china leader want more money to built mega project, so will like to control every chinese people there do not want anybody to stop or slow down process even it fail there will try to complete it, there will force many it own people to secrifice for better future next gerneration,

for evey sucess there will be price to paid from poor people this rule

nobody can become rich by them self there will need few hundred people working for you than you will can become rich

[eastern2western]

@Iluzzzion about 99% of chinese men smoke and sometimes the unfiltered ones. years of smoking can cause such kind of discoloration.

[eastern2western]

china shows the benefits of a one party system and that is basically massive projects get done fast. In a democratic system, first ten years are just used on the arguments. but if the project goes wrong, the party takes the fault.

[YoshiTheBlue]

BUT WHATS CHINA?

[Iluzzzion]

look at his teeth

[RoniCMaster]

@Szalur89 They didn't but they do now. They're already investing billions in green technology and will spend another $400 billion over the next 5 years. Several high-profile US green tech companies are packing up for China and numerous Chinese green tech companies are popping up like mushrooms all over the country. So I'd say this is one sector China is likely to dominate.

[RoniCMaster]

@cruisedragon China's first in Green tech now. And while China's making a grab as the biggest polluter, they are also the biggest cleaner and don't forget that they are 20% of the world. US pollution level, first in the world, is made on the back of less than 5% of the world population. So China is doing a lot better than the US when it comes to clean, green energy.

[dgendvil]

Does the Chinese have more clean water streams & lakes than in any other part of the country, than the US, Canada or Russia?

[onlyonecai]

In fact most Chinese are pretty tall today, esp. those who live in urban area. Well, most people you see in Canada is from Hong Kong, southern most of China. Just like southern Europeans are short.

[ReadComment]

@chinwhy u hating on canadians??,u aint wanna get squated