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Imagine a country where water has become the most contested resource, with entire regions suffering from scarcity while others have more than they can use. Now imagine an engineering project so colossal that it seeks to balance this balance by transporting billions of cubic meters of water from one region to another. This is China’s South-to-North Water Transfer Project, one of the largest and most ambitious infrastructure projects ever undertaken. Begun in 2003, this monumental undertaking aims to redirect some 44.8 billion cubic meters of water per year from the Yangtze River in the south to the more arid and industrialized regions of the north. Divided into three main routes, the project spans thousands of kilometers, crossing rivers, mountains and plains. #infrastructure #construction #engineering