I am not comparing the achievements of Romans or Chinese, I was promoting the idea of getting water to fill the resevoirs or water needs.
But since we are talking facts, when did the chinese diverted water in comparison to the romans?
Couldn't find the Chinese angle online. My Chinese reading skills are pretty bad.
Yes guys for sure population explosion and planning for such is massive and I am not trying to shout out my blame. I don't want to be in the planner shoes. But really we have a new airport, subwaylines, massive state financed projects, experts flewn in from all over the world on business and markets, industial consulting but still water issues?
There are many factors involved in this water shortage. But I think it needs more help then switching of water for the public, wasting it in other places.
Priorities, solutions and long term solutions should be established.
Again I think the planning and execution of water related stuff has been a bit sloppy. And who can blame 'em for it. It's tough stuff.
Yep, like the Romans, Persians, Africans and Peruvians, they (all) have just been a blink of an eye earlier.
So I guess China lost. :(
Just joking, I guess it's not really a competition, or...is it?
Btw. my reference was only about the aqueducts not the hydraulic engineering.
and damn the acueducts are pretty....I like the one in Istanbul, and the ones in France.
Many countries build long pipelines to carry oil and petro but they do not build pipelines to carry water from wet areas (Floods) to dry areas. Also, many countries turn a blind eye to pollution of lakes and rivers for the sake of industry while permitting other industries to bottle and sell the very same water we used to get for free in the past.
Yeah unforntunately, if there is water transportd through pipelines is mostly saline for chemical use.
But it would be an option for water with inconsistant precipitation.
Hope they figure something out soon.
I think the OP was just asking about water rationing caused by the lack of, decrease, or increase in rainfall - not a definition of the word Drought. Easy to understand since the last few years have seen a decrease in the average rainfall for Kunming. I would not care about how much rainfall there is in Xishuangbanna or how much water there is in the rivers in Nujiang if my water was cut off during certain hours of the day here in Kunming.
Maybe true, but if a strong wind blows away a few rooftiles of your house, you wouldn't run screaming through the streets, that a tornado blew off the entire roof.
Sure it might not be important for some people if the water is cut off in the rain season, (due to a 3 year) drought. But for some, it might be interesting to find out what, this is all about.
So I guess this is a salient question now that I see Kunming has recorded the highest levels ever in the reservoirs. Is there still a drought, officially? Literally? Is anyone getting their water rationed still? It would seem to all be over, red rover.
It was a wet Summer and Autumn, now the dry season has begun so we'll need to see if next June to October will be as wet as 2013 to settle the drought rumors.
