The United Nations water conference was held in New York on March 22. In a general debate, Li Guoying, Minister of Water Resources of China presented four proposals: 💧 Everyone has the basic right to safe drinking water; 💧 Freshwater resources are limited and there is no substitute; 💧 The right of rivers to survive in nature should be respected and water should be treated as a living entity and there should be a harmonious coexistence between humans and rivers; 💧 There should be cooperation

More than 53 million people in northern China have benefited from the country's massive water diversion project which has so far transferred 10 billion cubic meters of water from the south to the draught-prone north. | China Xinhua News