Underground reservoir in Erdos Basin

The groundwater exploration project of the Erdos Basin has recently yielded results. The groundwater project, China's largest, has been running for 8 years with an investment of 100 million yuan. Approximately 10.5 billion cubic meters of water has been discovered underground, 5.8 billion cubic meters of which will be available to use each year.

Erdos Basin expands into Shanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and Shanxi provinces, and is an important coal, petroleum and natural gas base. Coal reserves in the basin make up 38 percent of the country's total reserves and natural gas 50 percent. It is a national level energy base. Erdos Basin is located in arid and semi-arid regions of China, and the development of the energy base has been restricted by the shortage of water resources.

The result of this find is that the water shortage has been resolved, which will encourage more energy enterprises to invest there, accelerating the development of the energy base and the local economy.

By People's Daily Online