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Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway Pays Off

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway, which was constructed two years ago, is paying off in irrigating areas of South Phyongan Province in the western part of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. There are many reservoirs including Lake Thaesong along its 150-kilometer-long waterway. When water is stored in the reservoirs to the full, it makes it possible to do farming successfully in the granaries of South Phyongan Province and Pyongyang without worrying about water.
    The River Taedong flows into the reservoirs through the natural-flow waterway without the help of electricity.
    Water tantamount to the 70 percent of the whole water volume of the reservoirs has already been kept there.
    The Irrigation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway Management Station are managing well the Taegak Youth Dam and water inlet structures to fill the reservoirs with water of the River Taedong.
    Water will be stored to the full in Lake Thaesong by the end of December.
    In recent years the DPRK government has directed efforts to building natural-flow waterways to fully solve the water problem in farming.
    The Paekma-Cholsan Waterway project is now under way in North Phyongan Province in the northwestern part of the country.