Posted on 20/02/03
China's water diversion raises eco-activist alarm
BEIJING -- Environmentalists are gearing up for an international fight against China's latest megaproject, a mammoth network of dams and canals that will dwarf the controversial Three Gorges project.China is already boasting that the water diversion scheme will be the biggest hydraulic engineering project in history. At cost of $60-billion (U.S.) over the next 50 years, it will be twice as expensive as the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam.
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