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(Jan. 20, 2009, BDNews24)
China is to embark on a water-diversion scheme it calls the most difficult in history, bringing water to nearly half a million people in drought-prone mountains of the southwest, state media said on Monday.
The “unthinkable” hydro scheme in the province of Guizhou would include a curved, 63-km (40-mile) canal and a [...]

(Jan. 7, 2009, Associated Press)
A national environmental group recommended Wednesday that California overhaul its water-delivery system by building a canal around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
A report by The Nature Conservancy endorsed piping Sacramento River water around the delta, which is suffering from degraded water quality and declining fish populations. The conservancy said a canal [...]