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Susan Sharma
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October 17, 2006
"Yury Trutnev, Russia's natural resources minister said, Russia is still in two minds about whether to revive a controversial Soviet-era plan to divert Siberian rivers to the arid Central Asia." (MOSCOW, October 12 RIA Novosti)
European Union directive defines every water catchment area as a distinct management unit and rules out water transfers from one area to another. On the 18th of June, 2004 Spain repealed the project to divert water from the river basin, that had been included
in the Hydrological Plan pushed forward by the previous Popular Party government and justified by the lack of water in some areas of Spain.
In China, Three Gorges Dam Project is about to be complete. After the rise in water level, the estimate of displaced may cros 1.4 Million People.
Courtesy WaterWatch@yahoogroups.com
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