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Chinese engineers digging world’s longest tunnel in Xinjiang desert hit a wall – of gushing water
Work on tunnels to introduce snowmelt to arid region disrupted several times by ‘water inrush accidents’, paper by project engineers says
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Chinese engineers digging giant desert tunnel never saw this coming
www.scmp.comWork on tunnels to introduce snowmelt to the arid region disrupted by ‘water inrush accidents’, posing damage to boring machines and project delays.