antiterror13
Brigadier
Lake Baikal holds roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water. It would be much more sense for China just to buy water from Russia (from lake Baikal) than desalinating sea water. I'd imagine it would be much cheaper, perhaps $4 for 1,000 m3. I think it would be win-win situation.
Lake Baikal holds about 23,615.39 km3 or 23.6 x 10^12 m3. If China buy only 0.5% of the water/year, it would be roughly 240 Billion m3 and Russia would get $1B per year. Even the volume would be 5x more than giant south-north water diversion project.
Imagine from this extra water, China' grain production would increase to 700 M ton a year.
I believe it would be easier and cheaper than south-north water diversion project. And the environment impact of taking 0.5% lake Baikal water would be very minimal.
Anyway Lake Baikal was part of Mongolia/China in the past
Just pure hypothetically discussion ... nothing more
Lake Baikal holds about 23,615.39 km3 or 23.6 x 10^12 m3. If China buy only 0.5% of the water/year, it would be roughly 240 Billion m3 and Russia would get $1B per year. Even the volume would be 5x more than giant south-north water diversion project.
Imagine from this extra water, China' grain production would increase to 700 M ton a year.
I believe it would be easier and cheaper than south-north water diversion project. And the environment impact of taking 0.5% lake Baikal water would be very minimal.
Anyway Lake Baikal was part of Mongolia/China in the past
Just pure hypothetically discussion ... nothing more