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Wed 3 Mar, 2010 07:31 pm
Singapore will honour China's Yellow River Conservancy Commission with an award of more than 200,000 US dollars for transforming China's second-longest river over the past 10 years, organizers said Wednesday. The commission will receive the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2010, named after Singapore's founding prime minister, in June, the organizers said in a statement.
The prize council said the commission "made remarkable progress in balancing water availability with social, economic and ecological developments."
It significantly reduced the risk of devastating floods along the 5,464-kilometres-long Yellow River, thus protecting some 90 million people living in the flood-prone areas.
Could some member/s explain to me the meaning of the part in bold.
Many thanks.
Yes . . . the social, economic and ecological developments will all need water from the Yellow River. So, for example, some people might want water for recreational facilities (social), some might want to divert water for irrigation (economic) and some might want portions of the Yellow River preserved as habits for migratory birds (ecological). So the organization which is issuing the prize is praising this individual for having given consideration to all of these requirements, and for achieving a reasonable balance among the demands for water from the Yellow River.
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