Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 28th (Reporter Wei Mengjia, Tian Chenxu) Miyun Reservoir, the largest reservoir in North China and the largest surface drinking water source in Beijing, will celebrate its 60th anniversary on September 1st. The reporter learned from the Miyun Reservoir Management Office in Beijing that after the water from the South-to-North Water Transfer Project entered Beijing, Miyun Reservoir is becoming an important "storage reservoir" for the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. Up to now, the storage capacity of Miyun Reservoir has reached 2.3 billion cubic meters.
For a long time, Miyun Reservoir has taken on the important task of using water for urban life and industrial and agricultural production in Beijing, and is known as the "big water tank" in the capital. However, since the end of 1990s, due to the drought that lasted for many years, the water from the upper reaches of the reservoir has been less, and with the rapid economic and social development, Miyun Reservoir has been unable to make ends meet, and the contradiction between supply and demand of water resources in the capital is very prominent.
Since the end of 2014, the river water from Danjiangkou Reservoir has entered Beijing through the Middle Route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project, which has effectively eased the water shortage in Beijing and enabled Miyun Reservoir to recuperate, and its water storage capacity has continued to rise. Data show that as of the end of August this year, the "South Water" entering Miyun Reservoir has accumulated more than 500 million cubic meters. At present, the storage capacity of Miyun Reservoir has reached 2.3 billion cubic meters, and the water level of the reservoir has exceeded 147 meters.
"Miyun Reservoir is a strategic water source to support the economic and social development of the capital, and it is the capital’s flood control ‘ Pillar ’ , but also the capital water supply ‘ Ballast stone ’ And ‘ Stabilizer ’ 。” Liu Dagen, director of the Miyun Reservoir Management Office in Beijing, said that after the "South Water" entered Beijing, the Miyun Reservoir played an increasingly important role in regulating and storing the water from the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, which effectively guaranteed the water supply safety of the capital.
Liu Dagen introduced that from the end of last year to the first half of this year, during the maintenance of the Beijing section of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, Miyun Reservoir became the main water source for Beijing’s urban water supply, supplying nearly 600 million cubic meters of water to Beijing.
Miyun Reservoir, built in 1960, is the largest water conservancy project in North China designed and built by China after the founding of New China. Its main functions are flood control and water supply, with a total storage capacity of 4.375 billion cubic meters. Since the completion of the reservoir, it has supplied more than 39 billion cubic meters of water to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, including nearly 28 billion cubic meters to Beijing.