1 | The region is home to the Red Flag Canal, a massive water project. | |
2 | The Dujiangyan Irrigation Project was completed around 250 BC during the Warring States Period. | |
3 | Thanks to a Gansu-wide water conservancy project carried out twenty years ago, the farmland around Li's village is connected to an irrigation system which draws from the Yellow River. | |
4 | Dogan Altinbilek, the former head of the Turkey's General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works, is one of the architects of the plan. | |
5 | In general, scrutiny of China' s water projects is scant, and the government is in a hurry. |