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"By 2020, Beijing will receive about 1.4 billion cubic meters of water diverted from the Yangtze River annually," said the official.
Beijing's water shortages are the result of its geography and the drought it has been experiencing since 1999. The shortage is expected to reach a crisis point next year, when the population is projected to top 17 million—3 million more than its water resources can support.
The south-to-north diversion program, aimed at providing sufficient water for China's northern regions that have experienced multiyear droughts, will connect the Yangtze, Huaihe, Yellow and Haihe rivers.
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BRIDAL TOUR A tourist is dressed as a bride by Tujia ethnic group villagers as she experiences the local marriage traditions in Jiangkou County, in southwest China's Guizhou Province on April 25 (CHENG JIE) |
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ANTI-TERROR DRILL Soldiers sneak onto a "hijacked" plane during an antihijacking exercise held at Tianhe Airport in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province (PENG WEN) |
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TOASTING LIFE Twenty couples in Sichuan Province's Jina Qiang Ethnic Minority Village remarried at a group wedding after losing their spouses during last year's Wenchuan earthquake (HE JUNCHANG) |
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WALK THE LINE Dawaz performer Samit Ijon successfully finished a walk on the over 700-meter-long and 300-meter-high wire in Hunan Province's Tianmen Mountain on April 25 (LONG HONGTAO) |
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