Water management project returns sound ecology to city in NE China – People's Daily Online

Thanks to a major water management project that connects rivers, lakes and ponds, Baicheng of northeast China’s Jilin province has been witnessing increasingly improving ecological environment. The project, initiated in 2013, has connected 124 reservoirs and bogs with pump stations and water channels. It stores the surplus water resources from rivers during flood season in natural bogs and wetlands, so as to expand the city’s water area, form a water system and smoothen water circulation. Baicheng, located in the west of the Nenjiang River Plain, is home to over 700 natural bogs. However, years of droughts had cut off 7…