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A total of 525 million cubic meters of water diverted from China's enormous south-to-north water diversion project have flowed into Beijing since December 27, 2014, the day the capital started to receive the diverted water, according to the latest figure provided by the Beijing Water Authority.


The Beijing section is part of the central route of the water diversion project, which begins at Danjiangkou Reservoir in the middle-upper reaches of the Hanjiang River, Central China's Hubei Province. It is designed to supply 9.5 billion cubic meters of water per year on average for some 100 million people in the dry northern regions, including the cities of Beijing and Tianjin, as well as Henan and Hebei provinces Uomo Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit 2018 Rosse Scontate , according to the Xinhua News Agency.


However, environmentalists said that the scheme cannot solve the capital's water crisis, as Beijing has been plagued by water shortage problems for over a decade.


Beijing still needs an extra 100 million cubic meters of water this year despite the arrival of the diverted water, Wang Junwen, a senior engineer with the Beijing Water Authority, told the Global Times.


Relieving pressure


"At present the capital receives an average of 3.45 million cubic waters every day from the water diversion project," Wang said.


Among the 525 million cubic meters of water Beijing received as of early September, 375 million cubic meters are used as drinking water for the some 20 million Beijingers Uomo Nike Air Max 2018.5 Nere Offerta , and the rest goes to the city's reservoirs and rivers, according to Wang.


Over the past decade, Beijing extracted an excess of 500 million cubic meters of underground water each year, and also used 300 million cubic meters of water from neighboring regions, Wang said.


The over-extraction of underground water has caused subsidence and environmental damage in Beijing.


"Beijing has been seeing a growing number of sink holes in its city streets in recent years, and the over-extraction also caused unstable foundations of buildings as well as affecting the growth of plants," Zhang Junfeng, a water conservancy expert who has been monitoring Beijing's water condition since 1993 nike air max 90 saldi , told the Global Times.


Beijing has 6,000 wells, but it plans to shut them all down by 2020, according to Xinhua. "However, Beijing