Interbasin transfer or transbasin diversion are (often hyphenated) terms used to describe man-made conveyance schemes which move water from one river...
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The Tana-Beles interbasin water transfer takes water from Lake Tana in Ethiopia and delivers it to the Beles River via the Tana Beles hydroelectric power...
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transfer zones often deal with major boundary rifts. Interbasin transfer zones could be interbasin ridges, broad faulted highs, or major relay ramps, all...
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Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (category Interbasin transfer)
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is a 28-mile-long (45 km) canal system that connects the Chicago...
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Indira Gandhi Canal (category Interbasin transfer)
The Indira Gandhi Canal (originally, Rajasthan Canal) is the longest canal in India. It starts at the Harike Barrage near Harike, a few kilometers downriver...
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Great Man-Made River (category Interbasin transfer)
Cave: another fossil water store in an arid area in Africa Qanat Water transfer to central Iranian plateau Guinness World Records 2008 Book Archived 2015-09-24...
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Delaware Aqueduct (category Interbasin transfer)
41°16′56″N 73°40′04″W / 41.282317°N 73.667908°W / 41.282317; -73.667908 The Delaware Aqueduct is an aqueduct in the New York City water supply system...
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mountain with large quantities of water. The water was supplied by interbasin transfer. At least seven long aqueducts tapped the streams of the La Cabrera...
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Concord/Kannapolis Interbasin Transfer (IBT) proposal calls for water to be permanently transferred from one river basin to another river basin. Such a transfer is unlike...
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Snowy Mountains Scheme (category Interbasin transfer)
The Snowy Mountains Scheme, also known as the Snowy Hydro or the Snowy scheme, is a hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia. Near...
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Colorado River Aqueduct (category Interbasin transfer)
The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mi (389 km) water conveyance in Southern California in the United States, operated by the Metropolitan Water...
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The South–North Water Transfer Project, also translated as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is a multidecade infrastructure mega-project in China...
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Los Angeles Aqueduct (category Interbasin transfer)
The Los Angeles Aqueduct system, comprising the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Owens Valley aqueduct) and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct, is a water conveyance...
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Telugu Ganga project (category Interbasin transfer)
The Telugu Ganga project is a joint water supply scheme implemented in 1980s by the then Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao and Tamil...
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Croton Aqueduct (category Interbasin transfer)
The Croton Aqueduct or Old Croton Aqueduct was a large and complex water distribution system constructed for New York City between 1837 and 1842. The great...
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Catskill Aqueduct (category Interbasin transfer)
The Catskill Aqueduct, part of the New York City water supply system, brings water from the Catskill Mountains to Yonkers where it connects to other parts...
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Central Arizona Project (category Interbasin transfer)
The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the southern United States. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado...
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Sterkfontein Dam forms part of the Tugela-Vaal water transfer scheme for the interbasin transfer of water from the Thukela River in KwaZulu-Natal to boost...
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All-American Canal (category Interbasin transfer)
The All-American Canal is an 82-mile-long (132 km) aqueduct, located in southeastern California. It conveys water from the Colorado River into the Yuma...
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California Aqueduct (category Interbasin transfer)
The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains...
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National Integration, presiding over regional development and the interbasin transfer of the São Francisco River. In 2006, Ciro was elected federal deputy...
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New Valley Project (category Interbasin transfer)
The New Valley Project or Toshka Project consists of building a system of canals to carry water from Lake Nasser to irrigate part of the sandy wastes of...
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National Water Carrier of Israel (category Interbasin transfer)
largest water project in Israel, completed in 1964. Its main purpose is to transfer water from the Sea of Galilee in the north of the country to the highly...
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formerly flowed both east and west. Bifurcation lake Distributary Interbasin transfer Kleinhans, Maarten. "River bifurcations in meandering rivers on lowland...
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Hetch Hetchy (category Interbasin transfer)
workers who built it. The water storage provided at Hetch Hetchy could be transferred into Lake Don Pedro lower on the Tuolumne River by raising the New Don...
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Goldfields Water Supply Scheme (category Interbasin transfer)
The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme is a pipeline and dam project that delivers potable water from Mundaring Weir in Perth to communities in Western Australia's...
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Dillon Reservoir (category Interbasin transfer)
the State of Colorado, and Denver Water have determined it necessary to transfer water from west to east in order to support the population. The Denver...
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North Crimean Canal (category Interbasin transfer)
until December. Preparation for construction began in 1957, soon after the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1954. The main...
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Sunkoshi Marin Diversion Project (category Interbasin transfer)
Pride Projects in 20 January 2020. The project is an inter-basin transfer project to transfer water from Sunkoshi River to the Marin Khola, a tributary of...
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River linking (category Interbasin transfer)
The NRLP, if and when implemented, will be one of the biggest interbasin water transfer projects in the world. A number of leading environmentalists are...
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