China‘s $62BN Water Transfer Project

China is building the World's Biggest Water Diversion Megaproject to change the natural flow of its rivers. The project involves creating artificial canals, aqueducts, and tunnels to transport freshwater to the industrial areas in the north. In this video, we will explore the controversial South-to-North Water Diversion Project, including its cost, purpose, environmental impact, and its potential benefits or drawbacks for the Chinese population!
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0:00 China‘s $62BN Water Transfer Project
0:35 China's Difficult Geography
3:22 The South-North Water Megaproject
4:19 The Eastern Route
5:22 The Central Route
7:25 The Western Route
8:43 Effects on Chinese People
9:32 Effects on the Environment
11:53 Is the Project Successful?
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[@MegaBuildsYT]

Do you think this megaproject is a sucess? 🤔 And should the Western Route be built? 👇

[@igoromelchenko3482]

Total failure from the point of reasoning and politically, as china same as Stalin's USSR does everything with only one thing in mind - to enslave the rest of the world. 🙄😔

[@blinklost]

Not! Every mega or small project is a joke n doesn't work. Even their current sewerage systems n buliding are crumble n falling apart let alone anything less being build china bc of collisions corruptions all lies to the people...

[@pingpong7810]

🈹🈹🈹🈹country tibet

[@dushka2135]

This will be a success... Huge success... And there is not a single controversy in the project except from the western point of view who always want China to fall economically.

[@shockme156]

comments that provoke westerners to comment about China

[@eltonbritt1502]

This is what I admire about the Chinese: When they put their minds onto it, they'll make it.

[@SuperSky9]

Except its possible because the China annexed most of the country that they are talking from and they have ruined their own water system with pollution.

[@hiyoryan3901]

Yeah but look at their air pollution 2:30

[@sirius5159]

@@hiyoryan3901 Most of those sandstorms actually come from Mongolia. Desertification in Mongolia is far more severe than that in Inner Mongolia, China.

[@bobsmith3983]

@@hiyoryan3901 The pictures of garbage in waterways are actually from India as you can read the text on the packaging.

[@bobsmith3983]

@@sirius5159 China is actually reclaiming desert into arable land.

[@donalain69]

I don't have the knowledge to judge Chinas projects. But I can see their success so far and the benefits for humanity they created. And as a result I trust in their competence.

[@ps-ti6zt]

Its hard judge whether they are overall successful, since they never publish their failures

[@daidracofosgate518]

When you look at the cost of these mega projects, see their scope and size, and then see how little is done with TRILLIONS of dollars in the US - it just baffles the mind.

[@TBombahh]

Free labor will do that for you and your country

[@ezioauditore5616]

​@@TBombahhfree labor was only done in the US

[@TBombahh]

@@ezioauditore5616 you think slavery is/was unique to America?

[@moufbreava]

​@@ezioauditore5616who built the great wall?

[@shizhaowei8126]

@TBombahh Err…yes?

[@leon_z1201]

10:36 - 10:43, the point is correct, there are indeed some adverse environmental impacts from the project, but the video footage is incorrect. There is no way a water resource is polluted like this in China. This could be true 40 years ago or so, but definitely not now. Today, if a river or lake was full of human waste as shown in the video, some people in the local government would be put into prison, that's for sure. Pollution like this is against the environmental protection law.

[@Iamp-itt]

污染严重的场景来自印度。我不明白为什么印度水流严重污染的场景被放进了中国视频中。

[@bobsmith3983]

@@staycurious69-dt3tt China today in not like that at all so the pictures of polluted Indian rivers are misleading and essentially propaganda.

[@bobsmith3983]

@@Iamp-itt 这只是反华宣传。 你我都知道这是无稽之谈。 中国的河流没有受到污染。

[@BatCountryAdventures]

@@staycurious69-dt3tt Illustrate a point? No, it's misleading.

[@yakin9940]

​@@Iamp-itt They are jealous for sure I mean the us lost trillions of dollars just to fund Ward while their infrastructure isn't comparable to China's

[@SukaDe]

This what a nation requires, proper planning and investments for growth in the country

[@jussikankinen9409]

Less farming and humans in higher houses and grow food in cities

[@Brancaalice]

Working with intention to improve life of their people. They have different flame of mind than the west.

[@EvanCarrollTheGreat]

Just reminds me of how screwed we are as Americans when we can't tackle the most minor infrastructure project and everything China does is 50 B and makes headlines.

[@amoney7590]

Did you ever stop to think American doesn’t have sand storms and massive mountain ranges of unoccupied land that take up 50% of our land??? They built things this large because they NEED it. Did you hear him say the populated areas are the most developed in the world meaning there is no room!

[@captainwin6333]

China built the Grand Canal, starting as far back as 2700 years ago. It was various canals all joined together and is over 1100 miles long. Its highest point is 42 metres - 138 feet - above the lowest point and since the Pound Lock was invented in China by the government official and engineer Qiao Weiyue in the year 960 (about 1260 years ago) ships could go up that elevation and back down the other side no problems. The Grand Canal is a UNESCO site.

[@jakejada1632]

"government official and engineer Qiao Weiyue in the year 960 (about 1260 years ago) " 2023 - 960 = 1063 not 1260?

[@daveduncan9034]

Venice?

[@00TheD]

Nope. Was built by people's that no longer populate the area.

[@ajdwyer1600]

@@jakejada1632 Does it matter? We are not in year 2023, a fake book called the bible has you under it's spell! Holocene calendar is 12,023 meaning you lost 10,000 years of history thanks to christians.

[@bakaneko6639]

@@00TheD true, modern "made in china" is a joke

[@j4ck3t]

you can say whatever you want about China but they go hard on big projects and are a very forward thinking people.

[@christiankrueger221]

Only if you don't look backward at how catastrophic much of their central planning was in the 20th century. Like causing the worst famine in human history during the 60, and the one child policy leading to demographic collapse in the next few decades

[@j4ck3t]

@@christiankrueger221 you seem to forget the staggering amount of people who live in China, if you compare China from 60's with now, they are doing heaps better. Of course mistakes are made, if we point out mistakes, no country is safe. But looking at the progress made, it is undeniable and you have to respect the effort. Honor atleast the lives that did not make it to see the progress.

[@yuxiangluo8614]

@@christiankrueger221 You forgot China was seriously sanctioned by your evil American dad and Russian mom during the 60s, because the Chinese refused to be salves of them

[@THEVIERAOS]

@@j4ck3tNot to take anything away but it’s a bit easier when there’s very little (or no) public opposition and no agencies (i.e. EPA) telling you what you can or can’t do. A lot of what has hampered the western world is all the red tape and corporate collusion.

[@efwfew]

forward thinking people is literally the opposite how one should describe China right now. They are literally stuck in the past, as are many Asian countries. Actually I should say the CCP is, not chinese people. work culture is horrible, people(ccp) are close minded, low freespeech and freedome of the press. not saying the west is better

[@fanzhang7892]

one of my friend is taking in charge of this project currently. 1/3 of Beijing's groundwater has been filled. which was almost dry before. The surrounding environment is improving year by year .

[@housemana]

at the cost of what, though? how many were sacrificed

[@fanzhang7892]

@@housemana not sure what’s the cost. And can’t see any benefits either. Seems not affect my life.

[@glitter_fart]

@@housemana See, they see no value in others life.

[@ModernHeaven]

@@housemana As far as I know, more than 100 billion people have been sacrificed. The Chinese from the time of 288 BC died for this project!

[@logravl5122]

@@ModernHeaven good one lol🤣

[@jackminao2060]

You're showing slums from other countries it's not even China because the CPC would never allow slums in China they are more focused on modernization and building more cities

[@lailalala8624]

The plastic packaging does not have any Chinese writing on it and it means that this rubbish is not in China but some other country. For Chinese made products for china usage it's a requirement to have a mandarin trade description writing on it .

[@waynethorpe1341]

😂

[@indiahindudeltaviruskillsi3781]

Can't wait to have the water canal from Tibet to Xinjiang be completed!

[@IcyLucario]

I love how casual "If possible, it would be fine to borrow a little :)" sounds despite it being hundreds of kilometers of multi-billion-dollar work spanning over decades.

[@anthonywong7906]

Here’s the original quote: “南方水多，北方水少，如有可能，借一点也是可以的”. 南方水多，北方水少: Lots of water in the South, little water in the North. 如有可能，借一点也是可以的: If it’s possible, it’s also OK to borrow some. I thought this was a mistranslation, but that’s actually even more unexpected. The interesting thing I found though is the use of the word “也(yé)”, which means “also”, meaning that there might have been other plans or something. Also, just to note, “ 一点(yī diǎn)” can mean “a little”, but I would say this translation is a bit closer to “some”, but at least the meaning is close enough.

[@Gmoney1807]

@@ryankappel1245bro was suspected of killing over a hundred million people directly and Indirectly he’s actually an issue

[@haochengzhai7156]

The greatest man of the 20th century.

[@user-in4xp4jx8f]

@@ryankappel1245 He led the Chinese people to get rid of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and was still discredited by the West after decades of death. Thank you, slander from the enemy is the greatest compliment.

[@kyleschaffrick3845]

​@@haochengzhai715610s of millions starved to death under his leadership.

[@gelinrefira]

Hydraulic engineering is in the blood of the Chinese civilization. One of their mythical hero was literally a hydraulic engineer who tamed the raging Yellow River. How many mythical characters in other cultures and civilizations has engineers in it?

[@dra6o0n]

Other cultures and civilizations don't need fiction to determine how good they are.

[@gelinrefira]

@@dra6o0n Fiction? You mean like American Exceptionalism?

[@shenzhenfactory2713]

造船的工程师😂

[@user-sp1lj1pj4g]

विश्वकर्मा

[@Brancaalice]

I am sure, they will find solution to each project arm, that didnt go in the right direction. I imagine China working in conjunction with Israel, what those giants mind could do to this planet improving the life of mankind. Well, they dont need each others, they both have enough brains.

[@christopherpaul1012]

There is no point in letting fresh water run in to the sea to become salt water when you are short of fresh water, the Chinese are trying to save as much fresh water as possible. I see this as a great project.

[@remhk6672]

Certain flora and fauna require brackish water(mixture of fresh and salt water) to survive and thrive.

[@l34han]

"South-North water transfer project" and "West-East electricity transmission project" are two major project in China's modern history. I am looking forward to see the other project in future videos!

[@martinjrtremblay]

Looking forward to the next Aral Sea success !!!

[@Niggendhra_Modi]

It's so funny that India claims that they're equal to china but in india all you can see is just poverty, slums, roads filled with path holes, filthy air, stinky smell, dirty narrow streets filled with trashes, poor infrastructure, unorganized society, 0 education, 0 mannerism, not civilized, mad religious belives, people fighting for cast, politics and religion. In their dictionary, putting a street light is a big development

[@kenho-wr5ul2rh7m]

actually South-North water transfer project is already a project with thousand years but latest section is to bring water more north to desert

[@AniMageNeBy]

@@martinjrtremblay Indeed! Huge success of claiming land back from the sea (well, lake)! Even the Polders in the Netherlands can't even compare!

[@cocamilo22]

@@martinjrtremblay you just dont know how much water from yangtze river can be....

[@mitchellbliss3828]

Incredible. No Wonder China is a global leader in so many variables. They invest is themselves and their future. Offer a massive amount of careers for their ppl

[@jebes909090]

too bad they half ass everything

[@bobsmith3983]

@@jebes909090 Nonsense and you know it.

[@jebes909090]

@@bobsmith3983 not at all. its the truth. china is the gold plated turd of the world. everything there is just looks but poorly made.

[@rmcvalrasrmc]

Magnifique synthèse sur ce transfert d'eau du Sud vers le Nord. C'est la seule solution pour avoir un développement du Nord ouest de la Chine mais aussi pour construire cette immense Muraille verte qui va faire reculer le désert au nord ouest de Beijing et donc de limiter les tempêtes de sable. J'ai visité 6 fois la Chine de 2011 à 2019 et aujourd'hui cette vidéo montre l'importance de l'eau et donc la Chine peut être fière des travaux réalisés: les barrages pour limiter les amplitudes des crues, la technique du pompage au pied des barrages pour stocker l'électricité produite par les éoliennes et panneaux solaires .... Beaucoup de ruraux ont migrés vers les villes mais aujourd'hui la Chine peut réaliser des aménagements touristiques incroyables et donc proposer une activité "lucrative" aux agriculteurs qui entretiennent la nature. Merci pour la vidéo!

[@tyq5775]

Regarding the pollution of water sources, The pollution scenes in the video are actually from areas in India, not China. The editing of the video is obviously not rigorous.

[@atulbesra822]

How are you so sure that these videos are not from China?

[@user-tt3cf3rm1h]

现在的中国已经没有了工业污染的河流了。如果河流被污染，当地的官员会被问责，排污单位要受罚，很严格的法律。环境法规在公共事务的决策中有一票否决权

[@bobsmith3983]

It's disingenuous and is anti-China propaganda.

[@johnyao3865]

@@atulbesra822just look at the letters on the waste package, not a single Chinese character.

[@sudhirsheoran514]

​​@@johnyao3865so is it in hindi ? Chinese bot stop lying All Chinese things they export has Chinese language on them ? Their product name always in English Arshole 😡

[@user-fe4ci3xb7s]

We are facing a similar problem in Iran, the government have guided water from western parts to dry Central parts of the country but since water shortages in 2 past decades the government decided to use sea water by desalination and sendyit from Southern sea of Oman to centre of the country Via pipelines, 4 major pipes are designed 1 had already been completed and 3 other ones are being completed so fast

[@kwoltekublai3337]

Desalination w/o nuclear power for agriculture sounds really expensive (even with nuclear sounds very expensive tbh) but I'm sure the cost benefit has been done somewhere - hope it goes well!

[@aison2735]

China began to implement large-scale projects led by the state thousands of years ago, including the construction of developed agricultural irrigation systems, flood control, and the construction of the Grand Canal and Great Wall. This process has shaped China's collectivist tradition and generated strong organizational mobilization and resource allocation capabilities. Benefiting from these projects, China's productivity and total social output have significantly increased, That's why China has always been the most developed civilization in most of human civilization history

[@xicloud]

The California high-speed rail project has reached a staggering $100 billion price tag. In comparison, the cost of building a terraform-level canal system is a mere $62 billion.

[@MegaBuildsYT]

We are producing a video about the High Speed rail right now, stay tuned! 😉 You are right, the budget overrun of almost $100BN is really insane 🤯

[@uog293]

When wages are 1/10th in China, when you can move people off their land without giving them anything, it's pretty easy to understand why we can't do big things in usa

[@tubester4567]

@@uog293 Right. Chinese people have no rights so government can just screw them over. China also doesnt care about environment or wildlife. At least in the US governments have to provide compensation and do environment studies. Workers are paid good money.

[@user-zr3zn5yi7o]

​@@uog293工地上工人的工资基本上达到一万元人民币一个月或更多，少了谁干？你给人家的土地不补偿，人家怎么肯搬？你是正常人吗？你的想法为什么这么奇怪？你们美国人是不是都是怪物？

[@user-zr3zn5yi7o]

​@@uog293去送外卖，一个月挣个6000人民币，时间长但并不累，工地上的活多累，即使收入不少，年轻人都不愿意去工地干，哪怕挣少点也不想那么累。

[@greentraveler4114]

Those images with trash waste in the river and slums are from India not China. I saw that documentary before, I understand you wanna visualize something to validating your concerns but that's completely not professional nor correct by editing footages from others to illustrate your viewpoint. Anyway, I hope you will be getting more and more responsible and trustworthy channel.

[@GTFO_0]

​@zxw833some😂😂china expert literally called out that qnd tried to criticise china

[@pineapplejuice9814]

Yeah yeah , you all are simply that clean . Dream on kid .

[@icecube3645]

👍

[@HehehexDD]

@zxw833 have you seen your air quality? China is a big place and I doubt you've been to every corner of China. The Chinese government does not give a shit about nature or pollution. I'm sure you know they are taking down the nature and replacing it with buildings. you are delusional

[@srinivasashree0000]

As an Indian I agree with you it's in India

[@aliceturner9689]

amazing video as always. very impressed by the attention to detail, but i'll just say sometimes the background music is really distracting and at times tacky. mad respect for your work i just thought i would put it out there :))

[@Hasibuzzamantaz]

i think it will be hard to notice the benifits of this kind of mega projects in a short amount of time, in the long run am sure it will be very helpfull.

[@Brancaalice]

Amazon river could bring tons of water to north dried land, but Brazil didn't have any project to people there.

[@Im-mono]

Benifits is immediate once it's done, but collect back all the expensise from it takes time.

[@stevenphelps5626]

I love the fact that China keeps on trying different ways to improve their lives.

[@ShuUlysses]

You can implement plans there. In US, the moment you come up with an idea, someone will jump up against it

[@stevenphelps5626]

@@ShuUlysses That absolutely true 👍

[@Alvin-Sy]

@@ShuUlysses just the nature of the democratic system, it's not about the benefit of the program, if you agreed with the other side of the isle, you will be kicked out of the party. and your voters won't vote for you again in the next election. So it's kind of pity and understandable why the US is falling behind little by little. well, they asked for it.

[@ShuUlysses]

@@Alvin-Sy the pity is most politicians in America have forgotten how to do a simple cost benefit analysis and it has all become about posturing

[@Aoeror98]

At the expense of other countries!

[@nithyanandhan9203]

Top class research about the project….kudos to the team and their efforts🙌✨

[@MegaBuildsYT]

Thank you! Feedback like this motivates us to keep creating these videos 🥰

[@leongao4295]

@@MegaBuildsYT At the time of 10:37, you guys used the wrong clips of the polluted river to put in this video, I believe those clips are from other countries.

[@sc8916]

@@leongao4295 That's right, all garbage bags are in English

[@user-yj7zn9vb1n]

@@leongao4295 要是正确客观才奇怪，不然他们怎么好问：“那么，代价是什么呢？”

[@LaowaiDaveJCP]

As a student of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou city was my home for 4 years

[@ronhorstman3946]

It depends on how you measure success. Without water, people can't survive. So even if it is very costly, these types of projects must be done. This is one of those projects where the present generation is paying for the benefits to be enjoyed by future generations.

[@jasminechong2793]

4:58 😮 5:41

[@jussikankinen9409]

Nature no needed

[@xmz341]

Nature does not need anything that humans need.

[@Mikheno]

Sounds just like the California State Water Project (SWP) which moves water from the north to the south. There's always a lot of issues with these huge projects but it certainly can be done.

[@reel1tv587]

I didn't hear about California destroying 600 of their natural rivers?

[@lolcatjunior]

If California can do it China can to.

[@HIYENZ.Fashion]

A lot of issues in corrupt countries

[@jul1440]

The western route reminds me a bit of the San Juan-Chama Project, which transports 100,000 acre-feet per year underground from the Colorado River basin to the Rio Grande basin.

[@doposud]

@@HIYENZ.Fashion name a country without corruption xD

[@jwcas318]

0:35: 🌊 China is building the world's largest water diversion project to bring freshwater to its dry industrial population centers in the north. 3:57: 🌊 Mao Zedong's vision of transferring water from the south to the north of China became a reality with the South-North Water Transfer Project, consisting of three major canal systems. 6:41: 🌊 China's South-North Water Transfer Project consists of three routes: the Central Route, the Eastern Route, and the Western Route. 8:37: 😬 China's South-North Water Transfer Project raises concerns due to its impact on natural rivers, water security, and environmental pollution. 11:04: 💦 The South-North Water Transfer Project in China has come at a great financial, environmental, social, and economic cost to the Chinese government and people. Recap by Tammy AI

[@yves-noel-mariegonnet1043]

Merci! c'est TRES intéressant! Un peu difficile pour moi de tout suivre avec les sous-titre. Les Mégastructure me passionnent, surtout quand elles aboutissent!

[@esioanniannaho5939]

I believe that Egypt is currently building new irrigation canals west n east of Cairo. Using treated sewage and ground table acquifiers.

[@expecto1982]

It could be great to divert snow water from heavy snow areas so the melted water don’t turn into floods. Floods are a big issue for the Yellow River region. The same goes for the U.S. I was going to look at the geography more and since there was very heavy snow in 2019 and on even in Texas, I thought it would have a great idea to build such water reservoirs and channels.

[@mrbaab5932]

Everyone already does that. Look up all the dams in Texas and China.

[@steve5975]

I think this should be done for Lake Mead / Lake Powell, with excess water from California (as seen during 2022/2023 water year) since they take so much water from the Colorado river basin; they should reverse the flow and put it back in Mead, vs it going out to the Pacific.

[@thegamingbird101]

Bro the three gorges dam, already given the people hard times, the ones living nearby have droughts and the ones below get drowned by water

[@thegamingbird101]

That's why the yagzte river literally dried up so much, that it's more like a canal than a river

[@spade1974]

flooding in yellow river has been solved by building lakes in gobi desert and creating fish farms ?

[@ALWH1314]

Based on Chinese government published major city water consumption, this project is now providing Beijing and surrounding areas 30% water supply. I know some may say Chinese government lies, not gonna waste time to respond those comment.

[@useazebra]

I've been to the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts. They are truly, terrifyingly desolate. I'm not sure even aqueducts will be able to change such incredibly dead sand into arable land.

[@Floridaman457]

There’s another video on KZbin of China doing exactly that. They are reversing the growth of the Gobi Desert

[@tomowenpianochannel]

Er, I agree. Focus on stopping the warming atmosphere with cars and heaters and factories. The mountains would recover and create glaciers (and rivers and water supply again).

[@royalsd]

@@tomowenpianochannelthey are also doing that, they spent almost 500b on it this year

[@axcell555]

Have you seen a Chinese coupe planting trees for decades and foresting desert again?

[@samisfun868]

@@tomowenpianochannel typical racist and ignorant anti chinese comment.

[@armineser2591]

If water flows into the sea unused it's a good idea to use it. The eastern canal is just 300 l water per day per person for 10 million people. Even the central canal sounds more like water for cities. For agriculture a few hundred Kilometer of main canals would probably be enough to use excess water.

[@user-un8ql4kj6q]

interesting that you think water just goes from river to sea is unused. You havent took any science class which teaches you water cycle?

[@iandavidvillaloboswong5180]

​​@@user-un8ql4kj6qHaving water in reservoirs doesnt stop evaporation. It is true that freshwater flowing freely into the ocean is a waste since it is much harder to separate salt and water than mixing it

[@stevozrepto5558]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😎🏁☘️☘️☘️

[@jussikankinen9409]

Better for nature if humans use sea water

[@BestResearch.]

Stop this project 🙏😭😢🇧🇩🇧🇩

[@thembanithwala7860]

Controversial according to who Exactly

[@talkdatrue]

To the subhumans inhabiting the KZbin comments of this channel. 😂

[@donaldli1864]

Some “international” entity.

[@peachmango5347]

Has anyone ever done the "If the Great Wall were built today it would cost --- whatever --- in today's dollars." breakdown?

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

And lives....

[@aleksanderbrygmann279]

A lot, while producing nothing of value. No human structures are more useless than walls

[@asqw-rv8cg]

@@aleksanderbrygmann279 Pyramids are more useless I believe

[@outman1923]

The Great Wall may not be useful today, but for up to 2,000 years, it protected Chinese from northern barbarian invasions, although not always effective. It is not for nothing that Chinese civilization has become the world's oldest civilization for 5,000 consecutive years.

[@rainzhang1957]

@@asqw-rv8cgkekw you kick him in the nuts😂

[@atanacioluna292]

Pluvicopia increases the value of these Wonderful Wise Water projects for 3 reasons. 1. Flood control is maximized by accelerating the water cycle to fill upstream flows while depleting flood potential. 2. Hydroelectric infrastructure is also maximized by Pluvicopia's laminar inflow from distant regions. 3. The Western project can benefit India and Pakistan while filling the western river watersheds to any level desired. Both sides of the Himalayas will get massive increases in potential hydroelectric energy. Beautiful documentary, nicely laid out and illustrated. Thanks. Oh, The book Pluvicopia shows how it is ecological, so it accommodates and improves ecological health.

[@s_africanchannel4810]

Truly love the way you explain with no attachment or hatred am truly your big followers from zambia 💯💯💯🇿🇲👏

[@grantmccoy6739]

The cool thing about reservoirs and aqueducts/canals is that they only displace water when they're constructed. Afterwards, they just fill up, and hold more water than nature would have alone. But water diversion that results in rivers drying up is definitely still possible. The trick is find a way to create a transfer without taking all of the water.

[@guochi]

智慧！

[@TenkaFubu]

These videos are always interesting

[@MegaBuildsYT]

Thanks a lot! 💛

[@jul1440]

I thought about projects like this to bring Mississippi flood water to the parched Rio Grande Basin somewhere in extreme south Colorado. I concluded that it would probably never fly with several states.

[@robertwhitla94]

Brilliance concept, plan and execution. Clearly there are problems to solve one being pollution.

[@barnabyroberts7950]

a positive outcome of them pressing ahead with this could be that they end up being forced to "clean up" their urban areas to prevent the rivers being polluted

[@papichurro2115]

Mexico City does it and they’re a tiny fraction of northern China and their pumping of water UP mountains consistently has flaws.. but we can do it. Because we’re china

[@hahasso1078]

Very smart and though working people. Congratulations

[@dusklane]

Thank you for the video but be as authentic as you can. Clip 10:33-10:44 is the situation in an Indian slum or somewhere, NOT in China. China has its own river chief system(河长制) since 2003, hundreds of thousands local officials have been appointed to manage each river and lake from province to village level. Occasionally there are some factory waste discharged into water during midnight, or one or two bottles scattered on the surface, but you will never see them full of garbage.

[@pvbarbell1904]

That kind of BS reporting makes me angry. Trying to show things in a bad light that are not representative of the real situation. Typical American jealousy

[@qwwq9517]

中国这么大 不可能做到任何东西都干净 这种满是垃圾的河确实在中国 只是很少

[@user-jh3ql6sd7k]

@@qwwq9517 你看那条河旁边的建筑的风格，这明显就不是在中国。而且你说的满是垃圾的河只存在于十几年前，现在如果某个地方出现这种河，相关人员第二天就会被撤职。

[@datianlongan5567]

Great example of visionary and courage to realize it

[@qizhang2032]

cant image how much the project will impact the environment alongside the canals

[@mikeriley7296]

unfortunately, the CCP sees the Chinese people as expendable, even if thousands or millions die, as long as it benefits the CCP it is good in Xi's eye ... Just look at the recent floods, the CCP opened several floodgates from reservoirs to protect Beijing, displacing 10s of thousands with thousands dead. That is the real CCP!

[@xsqweasd]

Then you should take a look at the reappearance of wetland oases and disappearing deserts due to the restoration of water resources.

[@robposterli2209]

They overdid it. Too many canals have almost completely changed the natural flows and dried up many rivers. Time will tell if these projects will eventually cause more problems than it solves.

[@yongzhu8454]

You are like humanoid animals lacking independent thinking ability. What China does is simply reverse transport water from low-lying areas to high places for people to consume, and then the water will flow from high places to low places again. This is like an artificial weather system, but it's just more accurate.🤣

[@n3g774]

Many years ago, the deserts of northern China continued to expand, and the media in your country accused China of indifference to environmental protection. Many years later, China planted forests the size of Germany in the northern deserts, and your country's media said that China's actions would destroy the local climate. Just like yours, everything China does, there will always be problems.

[@lovisstewart2128]

Big up from Jamaica

[@cpcattin]

One of the short clips is of the spillway of The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State.

[@jdw777]

China always puts their money on better infrastructure. ❤

[@mrbaab5932]

Did you miss the part where it said the eastern and central canals are badly polluted? The polluted water is not being used for drinking or industrial uses.

[@jebes909090]

not better, just more

[@XDF745]

@@jebes909090 Some of it is better.

[@thenerdnetwork]

I beg to differ. They are creating a long term problem with a short term solution. Instead of reducing water consumption or being more sustainable, they are literally destroying natural areas to take water from one area to move it to another while leaving the initial problem of too much water consumption unchecked. I mean they had to build another tunnel to take water from another area to move to another area that didn't have enough water after they took too much of it. The problem will continue to cascade and quite literally create a water crisis that could lead to the loss of millions of lives and unknown billions of dollars worth of economic activity. Many times the solution to underlying problems isn't throwing money at it. It is kind of like having an infection, and putting a band aid over it. Sure you don't see the problem because its covered over, but in the end, the infection is still there, festering underneath the band aid until it becomes such a problem that it can no longer be covered up and are forced to deal with a problem that has now grown exponentially because of not addressing the actual infection itself whenever it was manageable.

[@DakotaZ162]

Found the ccp propaganda account

[@luism7248]

China is always building on such a large scale. Really impressive coming from Europe😮

[@Sandi_shores_lands_fish]

They are like a kid with a huge parents income and in a toy shop of meccano/Lego Then invite friends over to help build

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

there is a difference between building, and constructing. this, isn't building..... it's barely constructing, bordering on money laundering.

[@Sandi_shores_lands_fish]

@@vnolan633 us fish people?

[@outman1923]

It's the same with the Europeans. I am also very interested in the canal system in Europe. Chinese warships once visited the interior of Europe, through canals. In addition, the Dutch are also impressive... I also know about Germany's canal connecting the Baltic Sea and the North Sea from Chinese history textbooks.

[@GTFO_0]

​@@Sandi_shores_lands_fishunlike someone who invades other countires with thrir trillion

[@lummoxx8586]

Right up there with Tianjin Country Garden!

[@windsong3wong828]

This project is brilliant. It is a green project . It will allow agriculture, forestry to bloom in millions of acres of new land in the north.

[@joemosely9383]

I'm Pro-American , but this Chinese project is highly impressive. We need something like this in California

[@wangzili356]

@yaboi9349 in that case you should be happy, because millions of Chinese people you hate are going to die, and the evil Chinese government has failed once again

[@jabrokneetoeknee6448]

Dude… California already has a 600 mile system of concrete aqueducts, tunnels, and canals, the most sophisticated of its kind in the world currently. Look up the California State Water Project. There was once a lake in Southern California that covered nearly 700 square miles of land, once the largest lake west of the Great Lakes, called Tulare. California’s water projects have pumped Tulare lake all but bone dry… today a town exists on the dry lake bed where there once was water.

[@joemosely9383]

@@jabrokneetoeknee6448 I was thinking along the lines of tapping into Waters Sources North Cal & Oregon.....CA is in constant Drought..... Im familiar with Tulare Lake, it dried up over 100 years ago, no ?

[@wisl8122]

@yaboi9349…. You know . “Tofu projects” used to (about 20 years ago)be a major flaw to Chinese industrialization. But you don’t need to worry about the three gorges dam because its construction is directly supervised by the central government. National projects like it don’t cut corners. You can also reference High speed rail projects both domestic and foreign. They are also national projects. “Tofu projects” are largely civilian made projects and small local public infrastructures. Those involved individuals will face harsh punishment if the projects cause great harm to the public. ( you could be put to death) and public infrastructures buildings have been greatly improved since the early 2000s. We are still building , high speed rails, maglev trains,smart cities, electric cars , 6G and AI ….. we hope you do the same to improve your own lives in your area.

[@evyiennetla9416]

​@@jabrokneetoeknee6448check out lake Tulare now! Normally you'd be right but because of all the rain last winter the lake filled up again! 😂

[@chuck6354]

Manipulating nature with augmented improvements to suit a city can cause major issues for everyone actually. The domino effect can get serious really quick.

[@user-bm8rn5ox5j]

愚钝

[@patricknoel9096]

Yoooo, intro sounds were perfect same with cartoon

[@infot.v9350]

Good info thank you

[@Pythonizah]

nice slideshow and maps, but can you actually list some technical data on the project? whats the estimated energy cost per volume of water? how does it compare to desalination?

[@rof8200]

For the sake of the world, I hope they do end up greening the desert.

[@bvssrsguntur6338]

We need one in Texas too but with different technology like water pipelines like ET have for oil pipelines that can be automatically controlled and has a 2 way street

[@achillesarmstrong9639]

3:08 talking about northern city but the photo is a southern city guangzhou

[@vice.nor.virtue]

The empty river ways that cut through towns are literally diamonds in the rough for civil infrastructure projects like bike routes, and parks - New Yourk's Highline (an old rail line) is a perfect example of repurposing old infrastructure to improve the beauty of cities.

[@johnrhodes5914]

Or garbage dump sites. How beautiful they are.

[@RobertoCarlosM]

Now, on those open paths, fill them with solar panels and that way you both generate power, and reduce the evaporation of the water

[@mlg1279]

The major canals in Gujarat, India are covered by solar panels.

[@vice.nor.virtue]

This is both the problem and solution that communism offers. The reigning party can literally bulldose through kilometers of red tape- however there is always a human cost.

[@anshultiwari2452]

In sea area we need to cultivate salt water friendly crop . In conflicting reason we should develop waste management system. In industrial area we need to focus on waste treatment in industry only. In maintaining of water supply we should diversify water according to need & prioritise original river system to flow.

[@raahinyapratapsingh1629]

रहन दे ज्ञानी खाली दिमाग के ढोल मत बजा देखी है कोई salt water friendly crop

[@IAteYourCookiez]

They are playing creative mode irl

[@WPJ.]

Nice video

[@seowkokpoh5104]

Not only water tunnels but also more underground water reservoir to store flooded prone area water to prevent flood n saved water

[@JenHope883]

Smart👍 move. Thank you very much for this information 👏👍.

[@mukeem91]

Make a video of Worlds biggest irrigation kaleshwaram project

[@rockshankar]

Maintenance will be huge. There is a reason big cities emerge in coastal regions. And people eventually move to bigger cities. i think its easier to provide incentive for people to move to prosperious areas rather than moving rivers.

[@slayys9329]

But all the coastal city in China is already overcrowded it would be a headache for government to sort things out

[@laserflexr6321]

True that is the natural, expeditious way that people deal with it, but at some point it just makes no sense to pack in another million. It is unhealthy for the human population and particularly so for every other living thing. It would be better to identify those who are doing things that cause the desert to expand and teach them not to do that, but do things that cause the desert to green. Show me a guy who has 100+ goats and I will show you a guy making himself a desert he will be oh so willing to share.

[@escapedcops08]

With China's current plague of "tofu-dreg" construction philosophy, maintenance is going to be expensive.

[@karthur3421]

​@@escapedcops08 Signs of Jealousy (Envious): (1) You aren’t happy for others when they achieve success. (2) Another person’s success makes you feel unhappy. (3) You feel the need to diminish someone else’s success. (4) You judge others negatively. (5) You’re happy when others face setbacks.

[@Bk6346]

Is this any different than Los Angeles or New York where they get their water from hundreds of miles away?

[@xiomykassandracoronelolive6775]

Excelente iniciativa

[@HKspurs10]

They should extend the project further south to Guangdong Province. There are floods annually now and it is ideal for both flood control and water management

[@keyurbhatt4769]

in long term it's going to change the geographic topology of many regions that will backfire in coming decades. whenever the natural flow of water is being stopped it's going to affect someday and that will impact the people who is not benefitting from that project.

[@chandachilongoshi8813]

So you would rather do nothing.

[@MateoBrutto]

one of the most ambitious projects of this era, I really like this initiative

[@nitinarvind]

Reminds me of Krushchev's Northern river reversal project. Impressive scale . But would be useful only if they are able to tackle the sea water and industrial waste issue

[@smiles0013]

yeh idk why they cant just stick a water treatment plant at the end of the canal to clean it, take the salt out and whatnot.

[@jackrisonjoseph]

​@@smiles0013because both water treatment and desalination process are different. Desalination process are expensive and you could only find a few desalination plants in the whole world. The maintenance fees aren't cheap too. Considering how China authorities only wants money. Getting this done would be nearly impossible.

[@sportsonwheelss]

yeah, sea water, I haven't heard of water travel up stream naturally. Westerner are so salty trying to poopoo the project.

[@rongwu-sj9ws]

As a Chinese person, I am very pleased to see that you can introduce China's great projects to people around the world. When I was still a child, this project had already been going on for many years, and it will be completed many years after I pass away. There is a similar project to combat desertification that started in 1982 and will be completed in 2057. Most of the work has already been done. However, allow me to speak frankly, your map is mistaken in not labeling Taiwan Province as Chinese territory. Taiwan has been, is, and will remain an inseparable part of China in the past, present and future. Thank you.

[@hichemjoud5593]

Very good thanks

[@kevinanaks8554]

China is not just maturing but matured Hope Africa is watching and learning

[@abhilashsundaram2432]

Great video. India is planning a similar project that is National River interlinking project. You can cover that as well. However if you closely realise the adverse consequences of such grand water diversion projects far outweigh the benefits. These are great at regional scale within the watersheds. For eg: India’s ken-Betwa link project.

[@MegaBuildsYT]

Thank you! 🙏

[@user-uu9pr2gt8x]

India needs National Cleaning/Toilet/Waste collection project first , before dreaming about other things!

[@kingkong-ed8tv]

If China take all brama putra river by this way??😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂india will die.

[@dante9208]

@@kingkong-ed8tv well yes but that only applies to the northestern states of India( and whole of Bangladesh). The mainland will not be adversely affected. u would have understood it if u took a look at the maps. I an not even gonna talk about the political consequences of this happening. china will not do this if not desperate for war

[@Ravikalavidh1259]

@@kingkong-ed8tv Brahmaputra brings only floods to NE of India...lots of destruction... NE gets enough rain to cultivate no need of Brahmaputra

[@bradliston2836]

We need one of these to come from the west coast US and fill up the great salt lake.

[@ajgraham7085]

Saw how well that worked

[@nick-dogg]

Very interesting, we have a lot of dry land in America too! Instead of America sending money to other countries, we should use our money to do something similar!

[@verteup]

no we don't want anything like this in america. It will be a disaster in the long term.

[@outman1923]

This is not how imperialism works. If you can rob, why work hard? These are your true values.

[@consp51]

America favors high-tech warfare and overseas military strength and global dominance. However, any mega civil project would struggle to pass through the bipartisan system, where everything is tied to party and personal financial interests.

[@martinsmyth9709]

Does anybody remember The Aral Sea? It's gone. Once the fourth-largest body of freshwater between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

[@chinacansay]

@10:33 This is obviously not China, and the text on the bag indicates that it is most likely India

[@MiryardWahab-rr9et]

To disgrace China.

[@cliveocnacuwenga4615]

Useful projects

[@expecto1982]

中国的老护城河，上海一些运河以前都是这样建的

[@marvinyo5]

100% will benefit the people, you could even transfer flood water to dry areas. More governments need to follow suit instead of blaming global warming on draughts

[@DaddMom]

62BN project, 1.5M views 😂😂😂😂😂 Creator should have thought to get views equal to project cost😂😂

[@nathanielking4464]

Yes good idea. Big risk. Big reward! China engineers are amazing. Now if we can only do that using ocean water and desalination

[@JamesPlatt88]

I wonder why they are routing the one canal under the Yellow River instead of over it. As far as the problems mentioned, I am sure they will work them out. Overall it's a good idea, but would it be simpler to somehow catch and reroute the water from the rivers where they are about to go into the ocean and re-divert that?

[@raywon6465]

Drilling canals below the Yellow River to divert water can save energy through the siphon principle. If the canals pass above the Yellow River, pumping stations are required, and the maintenance costs are higher

[@RomaInvicta202]

Overall it's a horrible idea: Yangtze already lost about half of its water - that means droughts, less food, problems with river transport. South China is China's bread basket because of that water - no water = no food

[@issaraie9801]

Really fascinating stuff

[@keithjohnson7677]

I hope the UK people are watching this and think more people more water .

[@taylor.g.deloye]

"China will grow larger!" -C&C Generals

[@krashd]

"Let China sleep, for when she awakens the Earth will tremble before her!" -Napoleon Bonaparte

[@joshdenton611]

i think that China has a lot of potential in containing the Gobi desert. the water aqueducts are a great idea. The Chinese have really come a long ways technologically over the years. And as far as de-desertification, i'd say that they might even be ahead of america and the rest of the world in such areas. One thing i think that would really help plants take root in the desert and cut down on sand storms is "screens" (almost like you'd find in house windows) on the ground allowing the grass roots to take place. In america, people will put grass down in a place that only has sand in grass squares brought in on trucks (we call it sod). This "sod" has a really loose screen of about 2" by 2" squares. If such a screen existed on the outer regions of the deserts, i believe it would be possible to take back the deserts 1 square foot at a time (as long as water and nutrients are brought in as well).😎 China has been doing something similar alongside its desert highways, not sure if the screen material is in use or not.

[@BatCountryAdventures]

I think one of the main key benefit of the transfer project is not mentioned: It allows for better control of flood water. Couple years back, we had days when the Three Gorges Dam had reach dangerous water level due to excessive rainfall. Actually sounds like a great news if the Three Gorges Dam can be connected to the Han River as an alternative route to relief the pressure on the downstream rivers.

[@ahrdal]

How is the water moved? Is it by natural means (gravity / flowing downwards), or is water pumped at any of these locations (meaning a tremendous amount of energy input), and if so, how is it powered? Is it powered by carbon fuels or renewable energy?