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How China Could Avert a Water Crisis Without Uprooting 330,000 People

Fast Company reports on an innovative plan by the city of Tianjin to deal with the water crisis and avoid the pollution that comes with the massive south-to-north water diversion project: The project has been in the works for 50 years and will cost an estimated $62 billion dollars. It involves transferring water from the South’s rivers to the North’s increasingly dry areas. And it has