yellow river

The Yellow River is and has been one of the most dangerous rivers in the world. Immense quantities of fine silt are carried down its banks every year, and this causes the gradual rising of the riverbed until the bed rises sufficiently to allow the river to break out of its course and carve a new...

Note: I wasn't sure if this belonged in Maps and Graphics or Chat (due to a possible current politics aspect). Please move if necessary. So. What if some Chinese government tried to turn the Taklamakan Desert into a manmade sea, by diverting some of the flows of the Yangtze and Yellow River...