Re:Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
by AtomicOrbital on Saturday July 23, 2022 @07:35PM
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It is no coincidence that once china brutally overtook power over Tibet it soon afterward deverted tibetian rivers to flow into china and away from their normal southernly trajectory
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Re:Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
by otagekki on Saturday July 23, 2022 @08:35PM
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Seen on https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/china-preparing-wor...:
> "With new water from Tibet, Xinjiang would boom like California,"
War for water is getting real. RIP Bangladesh, East Indian States and Uyghur people, the former two for starving due to the loss of a huge water source for their crops, and the latter for becoming a stranger in their own lands after millions of Chinese flow into Xinjiang for jobs and cheap food/housing. Inflow being trivialized by high-speed rail.
Re:Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
by erentz on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:07PM
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They’ve also put a lot of dams on the Mekong River which is seriously affecting flow downstream in Laos, Cambodia and southern Vietnam.
Re:Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
by bigbillheck on Saturday July 23, 2022 @07:58PM
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I'm going to need to see a cite on this, as preliminary googling came up empty.
Re:Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
by whynotmaybe on Saturday July 23, 2022 @08:13PM
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Many articles found when searching on duckduckgo with the keywords
"China divert Tibet rivers"
I don't have any to recommend as I'm just starting to read them.
Re:Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
by bigbillheck on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:58AM
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Yes I saw those, but they were all about stuff going on in the last few years or the future. I'm interested in the "soon afterwards" part.