Yangtze solves Beijing’s water shortage
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MORE than 70 percent of the tap water in Beijing’s main urban areas comes from the Yangtze River, thanks to a huge water diversion project designed to ease water shortages in the north.
The capital has received 2.28 billion cubic meters of Yangtze water since the south-to-north water diversion project began pumping water into the city in December 2014, Beijing Waterworks Group said in a report.
It said the project had increased Beijing’s water supply capacity to 3.72 million cubic meters a day, ending shortages experienced every summer.
Previously, the city’s daily supply capacity was 3.2 million cubic meters at most and water sources, mainly from underground, were susceptible to calcium and magnesium salts.
At least 11 million people in Beijing have benefited from the diversion project so far, the report said.
“Residents in high-rise apartment buildings used to suffer water crunches in summer. On some of the worst days, there was no water for cooking or washing,” said Fang Yajun, water authority chief in east Beijing’s Tongzhou District.
“Their problems will soon be solved, with a new waterworks that will open this summer to supply 200,000 cubic meters of water daily,” he said. The new waterworks in Tongzhou will double the district’s daily supply capacity, Fang said.
Of the Yangtze water pumped to Beijing since the end of 2014, about 1.58 billion cubic meters has gone to water supply companies. The rest is stored in reservoirs or used as groundwater, river and lake supplies.
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