An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 8, 2024 shows villages along Baiyangdian Lake in Xiong'an New Area, north China's Hebei Province. China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project has three routes. The middle route, which is the most prominent one, begins at the Danjiangkou Reservoir in central China's Hubei Province and runs through Henan and Hebei before reaching Beijing and Tianjin. The first phase of the middle route project has transferred over 21.7 billion cubic meters of water to Hebei province since it began supplying water in 2014. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)