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August 15th, 2011
Soviet River Diversion Project Worth Considering

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With certain improvements, a Soviet-time project to reroute Siberian rivers may be worth reviving to solve drinking water shortages in Russia’s Urals and countries of Central Asia, a leading Russian hydrology expert said. Professor Nikolai Koronkevich of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences said the project to supply over 30 cubic km of water from Siberian rivers to Central Asia, abandoned 25 years ago, may be worth reanimating in a “curtailed variant.” Read More