Why China is Running Out of Water
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China is currently facing its worst drought in more than 60 years. The country's reservoirs are drying up, and its facing severe water shortages. All of these problems have had a major impact on the country, and have lead to severe water shortages. With an intent to put an end to China's water crisis, the Chinese Government has outlined a $60 Billion Plan to change the distribution of water across the country. Therefore, how will this plan impact China's water crisis, and what are the long term effects of this massive project?
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Only problem is that they don't really have a great track record of building structures that last beyond 3 years, the 3 gouges damn isn't fairing well now with multiple structural issues not to mention the many ghost cities that are crumbling to pieces.
... Three gorges dam. ......
The only problem is that what you said.
😂clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about
@@miaomiaotoo come on now we talkin about communist China
Remind me a game called Infra, it perfectly represents China construction
North China will soon import water from the abundant water-rich land of Eastern Russia. If they can import oil, it is even easier to dig canals. Money buys water that is now flowing to the oceans from Siberia.
that's only if they can force russia to do so. russia banned china from pumping water from lake baikal. depends how desperate putin is to kill off the ukrainians
I was a teacher in southern China. While there you could not drink the water. That was 25 years ago. I'm sure nothing changed.
Only problem is that it loses huge amounts of water to evaporation, the overall flow velocity is very slow limiting it's volume delivery and the slow movement is causing severe siltation along most of the route.
Essentially, a massive amount of maintainence will be needed to deal with the silt, it will require large amounts of electricity and the water will be 5x more expensive.
The project is already a failure.
And very poluted
Don't forget it merely provides 25% of actual needs for the served areas (cf. PolyMatter)
How much of the problem has been caused by weather modification ?
Over use of water same with America.
Like over development changing the flow of water in streams and rivers making lakes and more are not helping the environment and how the water cycle works.
Almost all countries have this problem yes including America and farming definitely needs to change or we will go hungry as we destroyed more forests for farm land at the same time.
Lake Meade for example. We need global water desalination
Retaining surface water is still a big
problem....evaporation is the biggest
challenge....
Not until there is a technological
break through, fresh water is still a
problem....
Ah but if you stop the evaporation then there’ll be less rain
@@t-rex4211
Ocean evaporation
@@t-rex4211 The reason OP is say evaporation is a huge issue is because dams increase evaporation rates by both increasing water surface area and slowing water movement (which makes water heat up faster in the sun). China has a massive amount of dams. For years it's also been having massive floods in parts of the country, likely caused by the excessive evaporation. There are floods happen about around now, in fact. China Insights posted a video on it 5 days ago.
They really should focus on changing the way water is used in farms and homes to mitigate the damage being done.
Move all that water? Why not simply move the people?
there are 100s of millions of people to move and then house. You'd need jobs, housing, and a way to move all those people. the water is easier.
@@ghudbob8613 No, it's more practical to discourage+penalize excessive water use. However, this is apparently too politically dangerous for the CCP
A dam that can't regulate water is not worth a dam.
Pray for China drought to continue. Pray for Taiwan to stay free.
At what cost $$ to the end users? Interesting to see a water quality analysis upon arrival in the North
Is the voice an actual human or is he a robot? It sounds off at times
So the drought in China is worse than here in the USA.
I thought the video is about the drought in China. Can you make a video about the drought in USA?
@@ChuckN516 Have you been living under a rock?
@@ChuckN516 Yeah this video is about the drought in China, but I live in the USA not China that's why I'm talking about the United States of America.
@@ksli57 I live in California which is one of the largest states in the United States of America.
Same reason why part of Colorado river and turkey river drying up not just China 😂
China cut 20M Trees Daily for Chopsticks only in that case India is better atleast we eat by Hands to protect our Nature😊
What a disaster in the making interfering with nature again and again! And again we face serious problems from what we do
😢
My prediction for humanity our time is up
China has some great ingenuities in building MEGA projects, in a fair amount of time. Storms that create large amounts of water can benefit other dry regions! It's time that every nation, create a piping system in flood zone areas to re-channel piping to areas of drought. Tunnel Boring Machines can be collecting water in flood zones and re-directing water to agriculture farmland. Underground tunneling systems keep the ground cool enough to bring clouds! Rising waters could be a plus to global warming with underground tunneling systems to keep the water from evaporating! Just a thought...Peace is the answer!
They can use SASAKURA ATLAS Fresh Water Generator technology to produce fresh water just Qatar and other Saudi city.
"China has no water?" China is collapsing! Oops, no, wait, it's our banking system collapsing!🤣 🤣 🤣
1:44 Make up your mind already: what percentage lives in the north part of the country: 46% or 90%. Cannot be both!
46% of the people live in the North and 54% in the South. He said the 90% is in the North OR East of the country. Basically 90% of the people live along the coast moving South -> North and stretching inland across the northern part of the country. So in the South, roughly 44% of the population is living along the east coast.
@@pudwellion Thanks for the elaboration. It is better this way, but I think using percentages for these data and this way is still fairly confusing. The use of the OR overlap especially, does not really characterize a specific trend or snapshot in this context, just churns out numbers.
A 1000km tunnel? Good luck with that.
Love the fact China is self destructing itself😊
Dont you worry, North Korea will destroyed South Korea before it happened!
I just can't understand.
If China made a 60$ billion on improving desalination technology, they can make artificial fresh water nearly as cheap as natural ones.
Desalination by the us government would be the best, imagine 100$ billion allocated to universities like MIT, I'm pretty sure we'll have, after about 10 years, artificial water that is as cheap as natural ones, transported through pipelines and owned and patented by a corporation that will have contracts with alot of countries and be very profitable
60 billion dollars for research and developement is a risk with unknown outcomes. Besides, desalaination technology is fine as is (could be better of course), but the main problem is energy to run the process. Until we have nuclear fusion, it is unlikely to be used at a large scale.
@@sleepyjoe4529 this is what they should do R&D on, energy cost reduction and efficiency of desalination process. I'm not asking them to make only new desalination things, but to also improve existing technologies
@@Omer1996E.C they're doing that already -- just not 60 billion dollars worth. It's not one or the other -- they can do R&D in desalination, energy production AND build a water trasnfer tunnel. It's not mutually exclusive. Again, one thing is for certain, having a huge water tunnel across your country means so much flexibility when it comes to other developments in the region along that path so it's a worthwhile investment. And at 60 billion dollars, it really isn't even all that much (for China anyways).
One thing they wont do is let the water float on its market value, which is really the solution. They have no idea how to solve the silt problem, which is huge for these glacial rivers. This is a boondoggle just like the other one.
... Face, it is about face, China may feel uncomfortable to request technological support from U.S. .....
... China positions itself same level with that of U.S. See COMAC-919, it looks like a brother of Airbus-319. ...
... China is close to Europe. .
the water they do have? is so polluted
Stop growing crops for EXPORT.!!!!!!!!!
This just redirects water of the Yangtze and Mekong away from China's neighbors (Thailand, Vietnam, etc), which is already being decreased by the dams China has built over them and would lead to shortages of water for it's neighbors. Selfishness is the Chinese way, however, and weakening their neighbors is probably a bonus for them.
This is why since the Song Dynasty, the south has seen a move towards greater prosperity. The root cause of better water management, and perhaps even desalination and growing the pie would resolve the issue.
Are you trying to imply those two dams are the same dam ?
So they are sending water up stream 👀?
Too many dams?????
Overpopulated countries have more shortages of everything .
It needs scientific research for best management of those conflicts use of
Natural Water🤙
No...how will the drought effect this situation...
Wasn't this completed already?
I concur. I've seen footage of the south north water transfer project . No one along the line has access to the water without a lot of money changing hands. Also the water , by the time it gets to Beijing its way too polluted .
The Chinese will design and construct a piss-poor quality aqueduct. Don't take my word for it, even the Three Gorges dam is having structural issues.
And we should care, why?
Damming the rivers feeding the Ganges in the northwest is disturbing. India and Bangladesh will suffer.
Karma
Not even the same dam
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There’s going to be a whole lot of countries that will run out of water and food in 2024
If not in 2023
sounds alot like the west coast of the US
330 million people need less resources than 1.4 billion people.
It's simple math.
😂wait till a big earth quake destroy that reservoir
Oh maybe xi would think to change his mind to be good for god is more powerful
5 years from now this will all have been pointless .. drought..
Very poorly written piece. Thanks for trying anyway. Some information came through.
The collective wests wet dreams
Chinese communist party has lost heaven’s mandate 😂🤣🤪
The Chinese government is amazing.
All these infra would help China and it’s population in the long run.
Hehee looks like youre sarcastic. If you really mean what you say, im sorry chinese gowernment is most corrupt peace of shit ever seen. It is as incompetent than north korea.
1000 % social credit to you
China is cool
You sure, the eat bats and kill folks
and short on water
And everything is polluted. China doesn't bother with checking whatever its building will not impact on their already over polluted waters
Actually its very hot right now
10000% social credit to you
Arkive, so you are happy is running out of water???
Good Chinese people Is running out of water