Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "$ 77 Billion USD Water Transfer Project Has Failed | China's Mega Project Rotten Ended | Water Canal" video.

@simonmasters3295 There's a few clowns in this thread but you've managed to point out the problem of water mismanagement is a GLOBAL issue and goevrnments everywhere have screwed up. Anyone whos being watching the water issues around the world knows this is a global issue. DW News have done a number of stories on this. America has 3 mega issues about to smash it. First is the Southern California Aquifer which has been drains so much that sea water is starting to soak through the ground and wells closer to the ocean are already turning brackish. Then there is the insane abuse of the Colorado system that's most obvious from the record low levels of Lake Mead (behind Hoover Dam). After that are the issues with ground water depletion across the great plains (Nebraska, Oklahoma,...etc.) I'm Australian but went to college in America so I know what Americans can be like. Meanwhile in Australia we have the Murray-Darling system which has been so badly mismanaged we pump water back up the darling via a pipeline (from the Murray) to make up for stupidity on the Darling. Back in the 1950s we did the Snowy Mountain scheme where we dammed the Snowy River which had the highest flow of any river in Australia and diverted it through tunnels and pipes into the Murray. We generated electricity and provided a massive amounts of water for irrigation. The Murray joins with the Darling our longest river. Those 3 rivers combined no longer flow into the ocean because we extract so much water from them. In Australia I first heard about this project a couple of years ago (see below) in a general news story about water management issues around the world and there are a lot of water management issues around the world. The problem for Beijing is that its main water supply the Yongding River was damned upstream for irrigation and now its dry. They built a dam on the Yongding to store and provide water for Beijing. Its never held a drop of water. This is a similar to the stories about the Aral Sea, the California Aquifer, the Hoover Dam, the conflicts developing over the Nile, the issues with the Jordan and the Dead Sea, the issues with over irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates and then there's the mega issue of depletion of ground water across many parts of the world. This stupidity in China is being repeated around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongding_River https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/china-claims-new-project-will-revitalise-the-yongding-river/10548942
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Have you seen the stories of them doing that in India? I saw a recent story about it and they have been having great success with putting solar panels over irrigation canals. I'm an engineer and it helps in a couple of ways. First it reduces evaporation and second the solar panels work better because it keeps them cooler. From what I remember they started doing it because of a lack of land - as in solar panels require land, but its had these 2 bonuses.
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In Australia I first heard about this project a couple of years ago (see below) in a general news story about water management issues around the world and there are a lot of water management issues around the world. The problem for Beijing is that its main water supply the Yongding River was damned upstream for irrigation and now its dry. They built a dam on the Yongding to store and provide water for Beijing. Its never held a drop of water. This is a similar to the stories about the Aral Sea, the California Aquifer, the Hoover Dam, the conflicts developing over the Nile, the issues with the Jordan and the Dead Sea, the issues with over irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates and then there's the mega issue of depletion of ground water across many parts of the world. In Australia we have the Murray-Darling system which has been so badly mismanaged we pump water back up the darling via a pipeline (from the Murray) to make up for stupidity on the Darling. Back in the 1950s we did the Snowy Mountain scheme where we dammed the Snowy River which had the highest flow of any river in Australia and diverted it through tunnels and pipes into the Murray. We generated electricity and provided a massive amounts of water for irrigation. The Murray joins with the Darling our longest river. Those 3 rivers combined no longer flow into the ocean because we extract so much water from them. This stupidity in China is being repeated around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongding_River https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/china-claims-new-project-will-revitalise-the-yongding-river/10548942
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The even bigger problem is that governments all over the world are being just as stupid. In Australia I first heard about this project a couple of years ago (see below) in a general news story about water management issues around the world and there are a lot of water management issues around the world. The problem for Beijing is that its main water supply the Yongding River was damned upstream for irrigation and now its dry. They built a dam on the Yongding to store and provide water for Beijing. Its never held a drop of water. This is a similar to the stories about the Aral Sea, the California Aquifer, the Hoover Dam, the conflicts developing over the Nile, the issues with the Jordan and the Dead Sea, the issues with over irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates and then there's the mega issue of depletion of ground water across many parts of the world. In Australia we have the Murray-Darling system which has been so badly mismanaged we pump water back up the darling via a pipeline (from the Murray) to make up for stupidity on the Darling. Back in the 1950s we did the Snowy Mountain scheme where we dammed the Snowy River which had the highest flow of any river in Australia and diverted it through tunnels and pipes into the Murray. We generated electricity and provided a massive amounts of water for irrigation. The Murray joins with the Darling our longest river. Those 3 rivers combined no longer flow into the ocean because we extract so much water from them. This stupidity in China is being repeated around the world. There's not many countries that aren't being stupid with their water resources. Its just some are being more stupid than others and my country is high on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongding_River https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/china-claims-new-project-will-revitalise-the-yongding-river/10548942
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Drumpf donny And WTF does that mean other then you can't spell?
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@Harry Groundwater It was a channel called "Just have a think" where I heard the story about India. I think we have to move on it here in Australia last week, if not last year. A lot of our farmers have private dams most of which are shallow and have terrible evaporation rates. They should also be covered in panels.
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