Used by barges as a highway, this stretch of the Grand Canal in Yangzhou was built 25 centuries ago and will serve modern China as part of a massive project to bring water to its arid north.
China plans vast water diversion
http://www.msnbc.com/news/625322.asp
Three aqueducts to ship Yangtze River water north
By Martin Fackler
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HUAIAN, China, Sept. 10 — For as long as Wang Cunhong can remember, the brown-green waters of the Grand Canal have flowed south past his barge home, toward the mighty Yangtze River. Now, the 46-year-old oarsman points to where massive pumps will push the water north for the first time since this stretch of the canal in the eastern province of Jiangsu was built by Chinese emperors 2,500 years ago.
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