Project to reverse Gansu's water woes From: China Daily | Date: November 27, 2006| Author: | Copyright 2006 China Daily. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

XI'AN: Zhang Ruxian, an 83-year-old farmer living in Nanchuan Village in Gansu, an inland province in Northwest China, was overjoyed when he learned that the government had launched a project last week to deliver clean drinking water to his parched village.

Zhang is one of the roughly 3 million people living in 11 counties and districts in central Gansu who will have access to drinking water thanks to the project, said Kang Guoxi, deputy director of Gansu Provincial Water Resources Department.

The project will divert water from the Taohe River. The diverted water will be used to replenish the ...

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