China water supply project
China is nowadays dealing with a territorial challenge. They need to provide water to 1,4 billion inhabitants from only 7% of the global water resources. The more difficult the situation gets due to the geographical distribution of the population and the water resources. Most of the agricultural land is in the northern territories as well as half of the population, while 80% of the water resources are in the southern parts of China.
Therefore, a huge water supply project initiated 8 years ago, thanks to which the 44,8 billion m3 of water will be transferred each year through three main routes. As part of a sub-project of the central route from south to north, water is transported from a Yellow river through a power station Shanxi, for which we have machined 6 tip rings.