'Parched' Chinese city plans to pump water from Russian lake via 1,000km pipeline
by Tom Phillips in Beijing from Environment | The Guardian on (#2F0BA)
Urban planners in Lanzhou have drawn up proposals to pipe water into the chronically dry region from Siberia's Lake Baikal.
China is reportedly considering plans to build a 1,000km (620 mile) pipeline to pump water all the way from Siberia to its drought-stricken northwest.
According to reports in the Chinese media, urban planners in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, have drawn up proposals to pipe water into the chronically parched region from Russia's Lake Baikal, the deepest freshwater lake on earth.
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