Water Transfer, A Solution for Water Shortage

Managers of water resources are faced with challenges with regard to the growing threat of undesirable water demand and the growing needfor sustainable economic social development of water-deficient areas 1, 2. Inter-basin water transfer (IBWT) project is a beneficial engineering counteraction to diminish the water shortage problems in water-deficient areas. Moreover, IBWT balances the unevendistribution of water resources by artificially reallocating the water resources 2. Various largescale inter-basin water transfer projects wereimplemented; for instance, the North American Water and Power Alliance 2, the Canadian James Bay Project 3, the Lake Chenghai waterdiversion projects, 4 and the Chinese South-to-North Water Transfer Project (SNWT) 5,6. They transferred part of the water from waterabundant basins to water-deficient basins, in 20 countries and regions including the USA, Canada, the former Soviet Union, India,Pakistan, China, etc.3. All of these 160 projects allocated over 80 percent of the total water transfer quantity