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Water Diversion Projects in China

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Water is a basic necessity for organisms living on the earth. Most organisms, including humans, consist mainly of water and live on a planet that is dominated by water. Yet, despite this global abundance of water and its renewable characteristics, as much as one-fifth of the world’s population lives under conditions of water scarcity. This scarcity is due primarily to the heterogeneous distribution of freshwater in space and time. The availability of water is an important factor in determining the distribution of human populations, but historical, social, political, and institutional factors may contribute to situations where large groups of people suffer from shortages of fresh water.

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Abbreviations

B.C.E:

Before the Common Era

EPBs:

Environmental Protection Bureaus

ERP:

Eastern Route Project

MEP:

Ministry of Environmental Protection

MRP:

Middle Route Project

MWR:

Ministry of Water Resources

WRBs:

Water Resource Bureaus

WRP:

Western Route Project

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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Michael Stiefvater, GIS/Mapping Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, for contributing his skills in constructing Fig. 10.2. The map in Fig. 10.2 was created as part of the World Hydro Reference Overlay map service by HydroTeamRC, a unit of Environmental Systems Research, Inc. It was compiled from multiple public data sources and published by ESRI at http://184.72.212.114:6080/arcgis/rest/services/WorldHydroReferenceOverlay/MapServer.

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  1. School of the Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    He Chen

  2. Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, USA

    Robert B. Wenger

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  1. Environmental Engineering and Public Heath Consultant, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Robert M. Clark

  2. Department of Economics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Simon Hakim

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Chen, H., Wenger, R.B. (2014). Water Diversion Projects in China. In: Clark, R., Hakim, S. (eds) Securing Water and Wastewater Systems. Protecting Critical Infrastructure, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01092-2_10

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