Channel to boost water supply to capital
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A CHANNEL will be built to divert water from Hebei Province to Beijing, and will supplement supply from the south-to-north water diversion project.
The project will bring around 150 million cubic meters of water from Hebei to the capital’s suburban districts of Tongzhou, Beijing’s planned “subsidiary administrative center,” and Daxing, site of the city’s new airport, the Beijing office of the south-to-north water diversion project said.
Construction of the channel, involving 60 kilometers of pipework, is expected to begin next year. The middle route of the south-to-north water diversion project is designed to provide Beijing with 1 to 1.2 billion cubic meters of water annually
The allocated “southern water” for Tongzhou and Daxing, however, is far below the demand, said the Beijing office. The middle route, which begins at Danjiangkou Reservoir in central China’s Hubei Province and runs across Henan and Hebei provinces before reaching Beijing and Tianjin, began channeling water in 2014, as part of the project’s first phase. So far, 1.6 billion cubic meters of water has been redirected to Beijing, benefiting more than 11 million people.
The new channel will shift part of the southern water flow bound for Hebei to Beijing and will help to secure the capital’s water supply.
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