G-Cans: massive underground water system in Japan
Wo okeyeh on Sunday, Nov 21 wrote......mind-bogglingly complex underground. The G-Cans Project is a massive project, begun 12 years ago, to build infrastructure for preventing overflow of the major rivers and waterways spidering the city (A serious problem for Tokyo during rainy-season and typhoon season...
....The G-cans site is all in Japanese, but if you click around the menus a bit, there are animations and diagrams of how the system works...Supposedly the G-Cans project is also meant to be a tourist attraction, and can be visited for free. very cool.
Posted by trek/taro
at 11:57 AM JST
Updated: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:00 PM JST
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Updated: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:00 PM JST
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