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River water channeled to drought-ridden Tianjin (11/10/2002)
Yellow River water Sunday poured into Tianjin, the largest coastal
city in north China suffering serious water shortage due to a six-year
dry spell.
Water shortage remains though the city with a population of several
million has adopted water-saving methods and raised the price for
water to help reduce daily consumption from 2.2 million cubic meters
to 1.51 million cubic meters.
The Yellow River water diversion, the seventh since 1972, is an
emergency measure approved by the central government to alleviate
Tianjin's water shortage.
A total of 350 million cubic meters of water will be channeled
to Tianjin by February next year from the Weishan Sluice Gate on
the Yellow River, some 440 km away from Tianjin.
(xinhua)
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