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Did you know that the London underground train system was the first of its kind ? A lot of people don ’ t . Fun facts aside , to this day , the London underground continues to grow exponentially larger ; currently , teams are coming to the end of an almost thirteen-year project , adding 26 miles of tunnel , connecting 40 stations , to the existing network through the ‘ Elizabeth line ’. The bill ? An estimated US $ 23bn . Currently , delivery of the Elizabeth line – which was already in its complex final stages – is being completed at a time of great uncertainty due to the risk and potential impacts of further COVID-19 outbreaks . The teams behind the scenes expect to bring the line into passenger service “ as soon as practically possible – possibly in the first half of 2022 .”

China

If you ’ ve ever looked at China ’ s population distribution and water resources – no idea why you would have –, you ’ ll have noticed that it ’ s slightly disproportionate . In the north of the country , you ’ ll find almost fifty per cent of the population but only twenty per cent of the country ’ s water resources . It ’ s a drastic imbalance . To rectify the problem , the Chinese government has ring-fenced funding for the construction of three titanic canals . Each canal will be more than 600 miles long and will funnel water from China ’ s three largest rivers into the nation ’ s northern regions . According to Chinese reports , the project will take just shy of fifty years , and it will supply an incredible 44.6 billion cubic metres of water each year .

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