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The South–North Water Transfer Project: remaking the geography of China

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  • Michael Webber
  • Britt Crow-Miller
  • Sarah Rogers

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The South–North Water Transfer Project: remaking the geography of China. Regional Studies. This paper uses a technopolitical approach to analyse China’s South–North Water Transfer Project. The project promises to channel 25 billion cubic metres of water a year from the Yangtze River northward, connecting four river basins, three megacities, six provinces and hundreds of millions of water users. The paper argues that the project embodies a particular, engineering-heavy approach to water management; that, even so, it poses fundamental challenges to existing regional structures of governance; and that it promises continuing detrimental environmental impacts in source regions even as it invites similar future interventions in China’s hydrological environment.

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  • Michael Webber & Britt Crow-Miller & Sarah Rogers, 2017. "The South–North Water Transfer Project: remaking the geography of China," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(3), pages 370-382, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:51:y:2017:i:3:p:370-382
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1265647
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    1. Jian Xie, 2009. "Addressing China's Water Scarcity : Recommendations for Selected Water Resource Management Issues," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 2585.
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