Sharing of water

How to fairly distribute limited water resources and guarantee the effective conservation of such resources has become a pressing issue when it comes to the construction of reservoirs.

Thirty-one National People's Congress (NPC) deputies from Hebei province submitted a motion to the current NPC session at the weekend urging neighboring Shanxi province to take into consideration the lower reaches of a river flowing through the two provinces when it plans a new reservoir.

Shanxi is said to have built more than 100 reservoirs of different sizes along the upper reaches of Zhanghe River within its border. This has prevented most water from flowing down to the lower reaches in Hebei province. A planned new reservoir, if constructed, would make the situation ever worse.