--FILE--A view of a water channel and a pumping station in the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in Taocha village, Jiuchong town, Xichuan county, Nanyang city, central China's Henan province, 13 July 2015. China's south-to-north water diversion project has benefited more than 11 million people in Beijing, authorities said Tuesday (27 December 2016). Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the middle route, which has pumped 1.94 billion cubic meters of water into Beijing in two years, according to the project office. More than 1.3 billion cubic meters went to water supply companies in the municipality, 280 million cubic meters was stored in reservoirs, and the rest was used as groundwater, river and lake supplies in downtown areas, said office director Sun Guosheng. Currently, daily waterflow to Beijing from the project is about 3.4 million cubic meters. The middle route of the south-to-north water diversion project carries 9.5 billion cubic meters of water each year through canals and pipes from the Danjiangkou reservoir in central China's Hubei Province to the provinces of Henan and Hebei as well as Beijing.
