The middle Route Project (MRP) for South-to-North Water Transfer will divert water, in the near future, from Danjiangkou Reservoir on the Haijiang, a tributary of Changjiang River, to Beijing City through Canals to be built along Funiu and Taihang Mountains. In the far future, additional water is due to be obtained from Three Gorges Reservoir or the downstream of the dam on main Changjiang. The advantages of this project lie mainly in good quality of the water to be diverted, greater water-supply coverage available, that water can be conveyed by gravity. The project will be an important and basic facility for mitigating the existing crisis of water resources in North China.
It has been already 40 years since the earlier stage study on the MRP started in the early 1950s. In these years, Changjiang Water Resources Commission, and other relative provinces, cities, and departments have performed a lot of investigation, plan, design and research works.
In January 1994, Ministry of Water Resources examined and adopted "Feasibility Study Report on MRP for South-to-North Water Transfer" made out by Changjiang Water Resources Commission, and gave a proposal to build this project to State Planning Commission.
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