This photo taken on November 2, 2014 shows a view from the top of the Danjiangkou dam at Danjiankou in China's central Hubei province. - AFP PHOTO / Greg BAKER
DANJIANGKOU, China, Dec 27, 2014 (AFP) - A towering dam in central China holds back a vast expanse of water destined to travel over 1,000 kilometres north to Beijing, but critics say it will only temporarily quench the city’s thirst.
China’s capital on Saturday received its first flows from the South-North Water Diversion Project, one of the most ambitious engineering projects in Chinese history.
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