Inside the world's biggest drain - The Diigo Meta page

• 15 Sep 09
  

  Colin Bennett

  On the banks of the Yellow River, China's government is trying to solve an age-old problem. Every year the north of the country faces a drought, while the south gets flooded.
  
  So they are building the world's largest drain. The middle section alone will be 1200 km long and is a bigger engineering project than the Three Gorges dam.

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