CONSTRUCTION of the northward water diversion project is in full swing with water scheduled to be diverted to the city’s northwest regions on a trial basis before the Spring Festival.
More than 90 percent of the project had been finished, the water authority said recently. The project is designed to divert 350 million cubic meters of water annually from Dongjiang River, putting an end once and for all to the lack of water in northwestern Shenzhen.
With a total cost of 819 million yuan (US$119 million), the project started in May 2006. Stretching 30 kilometers, it will allow the city to draw 1.2 million cubic meters of water a day from the river through the Shangpu pump station in Dongguan City.
The water pipelines will pass through Yantian Reservoir in Dongguan, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Express Rail Link, Pinghu Subdistrict in Longgang District, Guanlan Subdistrict in Bao’an District, Meiguan Expressway, Guanlan River, Xikeng Reservoir and E’jing Reservoir before reaching Shiyan Reservoir.
Up to 679 million yuan had so far been spent on the project, the water authority said.
The water diverted would be transferred to the city’s northwestern region, the most arid part of Shenzhen, which includes Buji, Guangming New Zone, Shiyan and Songgang.
The Longkou-Xikeng water project, the first phase of the water diversion project, has already increased water supply to the region by 330,000 cubic meters a day, which amounts to more than 100 million cubic meters a year.
(SD News)