Hebei water tapped for Olympics

Four reservoirs in Hebei province will be used to ensure sufficient supplies to Beijing during the Olympics, the capital's water authority said yesterday.

About 300 million cu m of water from the reservoirs will be diverted via the Beijing section of the ongoing national South-to-North water diversion project from the end of this month.

The move will help the capital realize a unified and balanced supply of surface, ground and diverted water to better plug its water shortage, Jiao Zhizhong, director of the water authority, said.