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DAM-L Three Gorges Probe: March 13, 2001 (fwd)

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Subject: Three Gorges Probe: March 13, 2001

THREE GORGES PROBE
March 13, 2001

(1) Plan curbs Three Gorges pollution
(2) China plans rapid water diversion
(3) Thousands to be moved for water transfer project

(1) Plan curbs Three Gorges pollution
Mar. 11, 2001-- The South China Morning Post reports
that China will be able to solve its water pollution problems
stemming from the huge Three Gorges dam project.
According to a former chief of the State Environmental
Protection Administration, Qu Geping, Beijing is trying to
halt the flow of sediment and industrial pollution into a
massive reservoir the dam  will create of the dam on the
Yangtze River.  Mr. Qu told the South China Morning
Post that China had spent more than ever on pollution
control in its last five-year plan. He put the total from central
and local governments, along with state and non-state
corporations, at about 360 billion yuan (HK$338 billion).
He said that figure could double during the current five-year
plan, which runs from 2001-2005.

(2) China plans rapid water diversion
Mar. 07, 2001 -- The U.K. Guardian reports that China
will speed up a "mega-project" to divert billions of cubic
metres of water from the Yangtze to the Yellow River,
despite serious concern about the environmental
consequences. One of the three routes through which the
water is to be diverted requires the evacuation of 220,000
people, while the water on a second route will be badly
polluted, officials admitted. However, officials in Beijing
insisted that the "complexities" of the project could be
handled and that no time should be wasted.
Environmentalists have warned that large-scale tampering
with water systems may have untold adverse effects, and
that much more effort should be made to save water first.

(3) Thousands to be moved for water transfer project
Mar. 07, 2001 -- The South China Morning Post reports
that Beijing plans to move 220,000 people to make way for
a multi-billion-dollar project to transfer water from the flood-
prone Yangtze river to the parched cities and farmlands of
the North.  Officials in Beijing pledged to keep the project
clean of corruption scandals which have plagued the
relocation of more than a million people in China's other
huge water project - the Three Gorges dam. However,
environmental experts, both Chinese and foreign, say the
new project will cause massive corruption, human hardship
and environmental damage, and could dry up the Yangtze
in 30 years. Environmentalists are urging Beijing to take
simpler steps like raising water prices and curbing rampant
well-digging.

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