{"id":133242,"date":"2012-03-12T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=133242"},"modified":"2012-03-12T12:42:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:42:54","slug":"sinking-city-solution-pump-groundwater-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/03\/sinking-city-solution-pump-groundwater-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinking City Solution: Pump Groundwater Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Council recently ratified a five-year plan to address the sinking ground levels of over 79,000 square kilometres and more than 50 cities in China, which potentially threaten the stability of everything from high-rise buildings to high-speed rail lines. The problem is caused primarily by <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/02\/land-under-shanghai-50-other-cities-sinking\/\">groundwater over-extraction to meet the demands of thirstily growing cities<\/a>, and has awoken Beijing&#8217;s passion for <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/three-gorges-dam\/\">ambitious water-related<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/south-to-north-water-diversion-project\/\">engineering projects<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.scmp.com\/news\/china-news-watch\/article\/Cities-are-facing-a-sinking-problem\"><strong>Plans are afoot to re-inflate aquifers by pumping water back in<\/strong><\/a>; scepticism, however, abounds. From the South China Morning Post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tunnelling expert Professor Wang Mengshu of Beijing Jiaotong University, who is also a member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Engineering, said he saw too much ambition and too little practicality in the land ministry&#8217;s plan \u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Feng Zhiming, with the Chinese Academy of Sciences&#8217; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, said pumping water underground was too costly for most mainland cities \u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Jiang [Mingjing, who teaches underground engineering at Tongji University in Shanghai] said Beijing&#8217;s most urgent task was not to stop land subsistence, but to set up a network to monitor sensitive areas and buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A city may take centuries to sink, but a skyscraper can collapse overnight,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We must have some focus, or we will be lost.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Council recently ratified a five-year plan to address the sinking ground levels of over 79,000 square kilometres and more than 50 cities in China, which potentially threaten the stability of everything from high-rise buildings to high-speed rail lines. 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