Yellow River

China's second greatest river, the Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: 黄河, Mandarin: Huáng hé , has its headwaters in the Tibetan plateau, and its mouth in the Bohai Sea.

China has a history of projects to dam and divert its rivers.

In recent decades China has diverted so much water from the Yellow River that lower reaches go dry, or are too shallow to exploit by the cities and industries that line its banks. China has initiated very ambitious projects to divert large volumes of water from its greatest river, the Yangtze River, to enhance the volume of the Yellow River.