{"id":29896,"date":"2021-12-17T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=29896"},"modified":"2021-12-17T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:03:56","slug":"chinese-engineers-digging-worlds-longest-tunnel-in-xinjiang-desert-hit-a-wall-of-gushing-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=29896","title":{"rendered":"Chinese engineers digging world\u2019s longest tunnel in Xinjiang desert hit a wall \u2013 of gushing water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese workers building what would be the world\u2019s longest tunnel have come up against an unexpected problem in one of the driest areas on Earth \u2013 gushing streams of water.That is according to engineers involved in the project in China\u2019s far western Xinjiang region, more than half of which is made up of vast expanses of arid desert.\u201cHigh groundwater levels have caused frequent water inrush accidents that seriously affected the construction schedule,\u201d said Deng Mingjiang, a professor with the\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3160185\/chinese-engineers-digging-worlds-longest-tunnel-xinjiang-desert?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese workers building what would be the world\u2019s longest tunnel have come up against an unexpected problem in one of the driest areas on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}