World Bank, Japanese Loans for Flood Control Projects

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World Bank, Japanese Loans for Flood Control Projects

Loans from the World Bank and Japan will be used to build flood control projects in the areas of the Dongting Lake, the second largest fresh-water lake in China.

Loans from the World Bank and Japan will be used to build flood control projects in the areas of the Dongting Lake, the second largest fresh-water lake in China.

Projects funded by 30 million U.S. dollars-worth of World Bank loans are underway to build or reinforce the dykes along the Yangtze River sections in the region.

And the project to build flood prevention fortifications outside Yueyang, located near both Dongting Lake and the Yangtze, will be funded by Japanese loans of 3.3 billion yen. The work will start next March.

Heavy flooding on the Yangtze and the lake in 1998 prompted the decision by the local government to return farmland into forested areas and to demolish dykes to restore the lake's floodwater storage capacity.

Over the past three years, a total of 554 square kilometers of land has been taken over for flood prevention use, increasing the floodwater storage capacity to 2.7 billion cubic meters.

This will put an end to the threat of flooding to 300,000 residents living in the lake region, said local government sources.

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