Friday, September 28, 2007

Three Gorges

sep 27, 2007

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From: G

 
See above the problems with the Three Gorges project. Like you, I was unconvinced about the merits of a major river-linking project ... Smaller projects are feasible, but Indians should carefully study the catastrophe in Australia owing to the vast canal system they had constructed in the first half of the 20th century. This has many similarities with joining rivers and cannot now apparently be remedied at reasonable cost. Basically, the salt in the sub soil rose to the top and turned a vast swathe of Australia into desert, unsuited to any farming.
 
G

3 comments:

witan said...

Read this from The New York Times, 28 September 2007:
[Single Page} Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up or
[Printer version] Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up
“By JIM YARDLEY”

“SHIJIAZHUANG, China — Hundreds of feet below ground, the primary water source for this provincial capital of more than two million people is steadily running dry. The underground water table is sinking about four feet a year. Municipal wells have already drained two-thirds of the local groundwater....”

witan said...

Witan said [continued}
In my hurry, forgot to add that the same thing has been happening in our own country -- perhaps much more extensively.

Sameer said...

No wonder why China wants to divert Brahmaputra river upwards...
Also, the Burmese thigs are killing monks and civilians...
And Insia is as usual the foot in the mouth response...