Sacrifices redirect water north

Reporter's Log | Wang Xiaodong

Before I visited the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, what I knew about it was mostly from textbooks and media reports: One of the largest such projects in the world, a construction period of four to five decades, benefiting hundreds of millions of people in the parched north.

After my three-day visit to areas that will make up the central route, I learned about the human sacrifice this task involves.