Why is China diverting some of the world's mightiest rivers thousands of miles?
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China's South-to-North Water Transfer Project has already moved 21 cubic miles of water to drought-stricken northern cities, but demand keeps growing. Now China is planning a massive western route across the earthquake-prone Tibetan Plateau, alarming neighbors like India over potential diversion of shared international rivers.
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