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Huai River

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Huai River

River, eastern China. It flows east for 660 mi (1,100 km) and discharges into Hongze Lake in Jiangsu province. With its many tributaries, it is subject to extensive flooding; work to control the flooding is ongoing. River traffic from the Huai joins the Grand Canal, providing water transport routes north to the Huang He (Yellow River) and south to the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang).


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Moreover, the author's careful presentation of the technical and bureaucratic features of river management not only provides a framework for understanding the water conservancy projects in late imperial China but also those undertaken in the Huai River basin in the People's Republic since the 1950s.
Nortel has also deployed solutions for the water resource departments of Guangdong, Anhui and Henan provinces and the water resources commissions of the Huai River.
The five utilities establishing integrated life-saving flood monitoring and drought relief systems using Nortel technology include the water resource departments of Guangdong province, Anhui province, and Henan province, and the water resources commissions of Huai River and Hai River.
 
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