Water Transfer, A Solution for Water Shortage?
Journal Title: Journal of Environmental Health and Sustainable Development - Year 2019, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Managers of water resources are faced with challenges with regard to the growing threat of undesirable water demand and the growing need for sustainable economic social development of water-deficient areas 1, 2. Inter-basin water transfer (IBWT) project is a beneficial engineering counteraction to diminish the water shortage problems in water-deficient areas. Moreover, IBWT balances the uneven distribution of water resources by artificially re-allocating the water resources 2. Various large-scale inter-basin water transfer projects were implemented; for instance, the North American Water and Power Alliance 2, the Canadian James Bay Project 3, the Lake Chenghai water diversion projects, 4 and the Chinese South-to-North Water Transfer Project (SNWT) 5,6. They transferred part of the water from water-abundant basins to water-deficient basins, in 20 countries and regions including the USA, Canada, the former Soviet Union, India, Pakistan, China, etc.3. All of these 160 projects allocated over 80 percent of the total water transfer quantity 3.
Authors and Affiliations
Masoumeh Khatebasreh, Maryam Gholami
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