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... transfer water from the Chiang - Jiang River over some 800 kilome- tres to the plains of Northern China . The study was conducted in conjunction with the Academica Sinica and various Chinese water management agencies . It is ...
... transfer water from the Chiang - Jiang River over some 800 kilome- tres to the plains of Northern China . The study was conducted in conjunction with the Academica Sinica and various Chinese water management agencies . It is ...
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... effects of inter - basin water transfers , it is included here for the description of four enormous transfer schemes in the US . All of these projects are aimed at supplying water to the southwest where water shortages are already occurring ...
... effects of inter - basin water transfers , it is included here for the description of four enormous transfer schemes in the US . All of these projects are aimed at supplying water to the southwest where water shortages are already occurring ...
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A review of the literature Edward Goldsmith, Nicholas Hildyard Denys Trussell. water transfers " , and " a discussion ... transfer schemes . One , the North American Water and Power Alliance , is called , " without doubt , the grandest ...
A review of the literature Edward Goldsmith, Nicholas Hildyard Denys Trussell. water transfers " , and " a discussion ... transfer schemes . One , the North American Water and Power Alliance , is called , " without doubt , the grandest ...
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