Efforts will be made to ensure that all water conservation projects proposed several years ago are launched by 2020, the Ministry of Water Resources said on Thursday.
On Oct. 17, 16 communications officers of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) paid a visit to Huinanzhuang pump station, a hydro-junction of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project located in Beijing.
On Oct. 25, the Tianjin Sub-Bureau of the Construction Administration of the Central Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project held an open day for the project.
The Hebei Sub-Bureau of the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project hosted the open day in Xinle on Oct. 24. The event hosted residents in areas along the central route, project builders, and staff from other project units.
As of 21:48 on Oct. 18, a total of 4 billion cubic meters of water has been transferred to Beijing from the Danjiangkou Reservoir in central China's Hubei province, and this source of stable-quality water has benefitted more than 12 million Beijing residents
Recently, a video named "South-to-North Water Diversion: The most 'Skr' Chinese manufacturing project" goes viral.
China's Ministry of Water Resources reported on Sept. 13 that more than 20 billion cubic meters of water has been diverted in the first phase of the eastern and central routes of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
The central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion project witnessed its water-carrying capability surpassing the target for ordinary times at 350 cubic meters per second.