Resumen de India plans to make longest ever river
Engineering projects don't come any bigger than this. Work could soon begin on a massive program to link up India's rivers so that water can be diverted from flood-prone areas in the east and north to those vulnerable to drought in the west and center of the country. But the scheme could be calamitous for the environment, say geologists and ecologists. The Interlinking of Rivers scheme, which government officials say is to get the green light from India's environment ministry "imminently," will create a water network 12,500 kilometers long--almost twice the length of the world's longest rivers the Nile and the Amazon
