China S-N water transfer scheme

• How much did it cost?

  around £79 million
• what are the pros?

  farmers have more water, helped mitigate drought in North and flooding in south, jobs created in the building of this project, help sustain northern industries and factories, electricity can be created from hydroelectric dams
• what are the cons?

  beginning of water deficit in southern china, very expensive, animal habitats destroyed in construction,
• how many people were displaced or made homeless?

  1.27 million people
• what river is water taken fro?

  Yangtze River
• how many cubic litres of water does it transfer each year?

  44.8 billion cubic litres
• how many cities and people benefited from the N-S water transfer scheme

  35 and 10 million
• how many companies shut down?

  3500
• how long did it take to build?

  20 years