China also faces the immediate prospect of having to make major investment to mitigate the effects of the north China to north China water shortage. In October 2000, Beijing adopted a plan to construct two major routes to move water from central China to north China . The eastern route will take water from the Yangtze River near Yangzhou City in Jangsu province and move it through a route that takes advantage of the imperial-era Grand Canal to shift it north to where it eventually will reach Tianjin. This route requires relatively small-scale relocation of people, but the water along this route is some of the most polluted in the country, In addition to the investment required to construct the route, therefore, a great deal of money must be put into water-treatment plant along the way.