China: The South-North Water Transfer Project— is it justified?

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Virtual Water: A Helpful Perspective, but not a Sufficient Policy Criterion (2010, background): “Initial discussions that exemplify this approach include those by Berkoff (2003) and Ma et al. (2006) regarding the South-to-North Water Transfer Project in China.”
The Global Dimension of Water Governance: Why the River Basin Approach Is No Longer Sufficient and Why Cooperative Action at Global Level Is Needed (2010, background): “Water scarcity has become so great in some parts of the world that policy makers no longer believe that it is economically unfeasible to transport water over large distances; witness the planned inter-basin water transfers for instance in China [19-24], India [25-27], Southern Africa [28,29] and Spa”
Cities versus agriculture: revisiting intersectoral water transfers, potential gains and conflicts (2006, background): “Another argument is that the real costs to farmers of partial "expropriation" may be less than what appears at first sight, given the room for adjustment in many irrigation systems and the fact that the hidden hand of scarcity elicits changes in behavior and factor use (Berkoff 2003; Molle 2002).”