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

Michael Webber, Britt Crow-Miller and Sarah Rogers

Regional Studies, 2017, vol. 51, issue 3, 370-382

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1265647

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