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Inside the Engineering Project That Rewrote Earth's Geography | BBC Earth Science

Civilisations have always built near water, but China decided to move the water to the civilisation. The Shahe Aqueduct stands as one of humanity’s most daring engineering triumphs: a multi-kilometre

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A map would have been nice.
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That’s so cool China. Well done 👍. Knowing the engineering our ancient ancestors did with these here in Europe to get a constant flow of water in aqueducts is wild. To think our ancestors did this 2,500 years ago and today and they still stand today working in some cases amazes me.
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1200 tons each is bananas 🥶🥶🥶🥶
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They just made longer tracks for a static dock crane. Nice
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I think they have 3 big cannal project running in parallel ?
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Might there be a mega industrial complex at or near the delivery point?
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How will they contain it, if it breaks?
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Roof it in Solar panels to reduce evaporation and you have a colossal passive Power-Station as well.
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Impressive! I hope they are wise and leave completed sections spaced along the route to use for emergency replacement.
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Will they cover it with solar panels and will feed atnmosperic water generators and pump wells beneath it? They can put rollecoster delivery robots on it.
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BBC News; But at what cost?!?!?!
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2:14 Oh come on. Thats not how construction works. The Crane operator job was to place it there on the marked spots. Its the people who lay the foundation that had to make sure that its a 1cm gradient, for every 50 meters.
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Giant Mainland China 😮😮😮 again ! 😲😲😲
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Where is this project? Why no maps.
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That Guang Afang girl is showing us women hold up half the earth.
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@afhdfh From YouTube ↗ 1 Jul 2026 18
So where are they taking the water away from?
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Du. The Himalayas or the Yangze
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China blows my mind with these projects. Dams, bridges, megacities. There's nothing they can't build.
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China is incredibly impressive.
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Meanwhile the UK hasn't built a new reservoir since 1992