Moving the River? China’s South–North Water Transfer Project

Magee, Darrin

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9920-4_85

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“…The most difficult social and political challenges for the water diversion project revolve around resettlement (Magee, 2011). This is thus the main social cost.…”

Section: Social and Eco-environmental Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

To desalinate or divert? A comparative supply cost analysis for north coastal China

Feitelson

2016

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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“…The most difficult social and political challenges for the water diversion project revolve around resettlement (Magee, 2011). This is thus the main social cost.…”

Section: Social and Eco-environmental Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

To desalinate or divert? A comparative supply cost analysis for north coastal China

Feitelson

2016

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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“…The open system passes through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the world's longest man-made river, developed in the 13th century. Thus, the investment in and displacement of the eastern route are far less than those associated with the central route [29]. However, the eastern route endangers the quality of diverted water because it collects a large amount of pollutants and sediment through the industry-heavy areas, including Jiangsu and Shandong Provinces [30].…”

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Quantity versus Quality in China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project: A System Dynamics Analysis

Qing-zong

2015

Water

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Abstract:The South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) Project has entered the operational stage. The infrastructure decreases water shortages and promotes economic growth for North China, whereas the environmental effects have yet to be fully examined. In this paper, an analysis of the interaction between water quantity and water quality is conducted using the system dynamics method. In a specific province covering areas that provide and receive water, simulation results for economic and environmental indicators at different levels of transferred water and pollution rates are obtained. Certain conclusions can be drawn from the findings. First, the SNWD Project can provide a sufficient quantity of water for economic growth in receiving regions. Second, an efficient quantity of transferred water exists, which demonstrates the growth limitation for both agriculture and the groundwater funnel. Third, upgrades in water quality can mutually reinforce the quantity effect and greatly promote economic growth. An environmental limitation exists for all economic activities. Therefore, water quantity and water quality are equally crucial in the SNWD Project to provide an opportunity for sustainable development.

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“…To date the limited body of research on the SNWT project has focused on its engineering, water pricing, pollution and environmental impacts at different scales (Liu ; Yang and Zehnder ; Zhang ; Yang et al . ; Magee ; Chen et al . ).…”

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Governmentality and the conduct of water: China's South–North Water Transfer Project

Rogers

Barnett

Finlayson

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Governmentality is a way of thinking about dispersed practices of governing, including attempts to render space governable. China's South-North Water Transfer (SNWT) project, the world's largest interbasin water transfer project, is a programme of government that attempts to render the distribution of water across space more governable and administrable. This article analyses English and Chinese academic, media and government documents through a governmentality lens. It aims to examine the SNWT project's machinery, mentality and spatiality, including its narrative, its constitution of objects and subjects in space, its multiple techniques of government, and its physical and administrative assemblages. In decentring the problem of the state in relation to the SNWT project we can learn much about both the politics of water and the nature of Chinese governmentalities. This article shows how the SNWT naturalises water scarcity, normalises the pre-eminence of North China, sustains engineering over regulatory solutions and reconfigures hydrosocial relations, while also outlining the limits to and endemic conflicts within this vast programme of government.

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Moving the River? China’s South–North Water Transfer Project

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

To desalinate or divert? A comparative supply cost analysis for north coastal China

To desalinate or divert? A comparative supply cost analysis for north coastal China

Quantity versus Quality in China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project: A System Dynamics Analysis

Governmentality and the conduct of water: China's South–North Water Transfer Project

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