Reservoir in northern China
Guanting Reservoir (Chinese: 官厅水库[1]), also known as Guanting Shuiku,[2] is the first large-scale reservoir[3] after the founding of the People's Republic of China.[4]
Guanting Reservoir is located at the junction of Beijing and Hebei Province,[5] mostly in Huailai County, Hebei Province, and a small part in Yanqing County, Beijing.[6] The reservoir is named after the dam built near the Guanting Town (官厅镇).
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- ^ Bryan Tilt (2 December 2014). Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power. Columbia University Press. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-0-231-53826-8.
- ^ Meng, Jing; Zhou, Yunqiao; Liu, Sifan; Chen, Shuqin; Wang, Tieyu (14 December 2019). "Increasing perfluoroalkyl substances and ecological process from the Yongding Watershed to the Guanting Reservoir in the Olympic host cities, China". Environment International. 133 (Pt B): 105224. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2019.105224. PMID 31665680. S2CID 204965946.
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