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The Innovation News Team (2026). The canal that thinks and saves water. The Innovation Insights 1:100011. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.tiis.2026.100011
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Figure 1.
China's new Pinglu Canal combines high-head water-saving locks, digital control and ecological engineering to redraw the route between its inland southwest and Southeast Asia.
