China has begun to resettle 330,000 people to make way for a project to divert water from the south of the country to the north, state media say.
People in Henan and Hubei provinces are being moved out of the way of a canal from the Yangtze River to Beijing, Xinhua news agency said.
When completed, three routes will carry water from southern, central and western China to the arid north.
The $62bn (£42bn) project is already four years behind schedule.
Water is expected to flow from the Yangtze and its tributaries to Beijing in 2014 along the central route.
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