Talk:Manych Ship Canal

Merge?

This article appears to duplicate Eurasia Canal. Biscuittin (talk) 14:43, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Properly, this article (Manych Ship Canal) should be about the existing (shallow, and little used) "dead-end" waterway along the West Manych, in the western half of the Kuma-Manych Depression, while Eurasia Canal should discuss the proposed (much deeper) canal that would reach all the way to the Caspian Sea, and which will presumably re-use the existing Manych Ship Canal route as its western half (by making it several times as deep). But that's a lot of re-writing. The original Russian source on which this article is apparently based is probably this one: http://ecohydro.ru/news6.htm Vmenkov (talk) 10:01, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

How does the Kuma–Manych Canal fit into this picture? Is it the same as the Manych Ship Canal?Thewellman (talk) 23:25, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

They are orthogonal. Literally. The Kuma–Manych Canal runs in the general N-S direction, moving water between rivers that both flow (at least notionally) into the Caspian. It's a purely irrigation canal, not meant for any kind of watercraft. The Manych Ship Canal, both as originally understood (in the 1930s) and in the more recent Eurasia Canal proposal, would be an E-W waterway designed for cargo boats to move between the Black Sea and Caspian basins. -- Vmenkov (talk) 02:10, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Caspian Sea level

but how much water would flow into the caspian sea? I checked the google earth and the altitude of that region is between 14-23m above the sea, which means we can build a canal below the sea level. however if there are too much water flowed into the caspian sea, the sea level would increase and cause huge damage to the area. And this increase on water level could potentially change the climate of the region. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.117.231.130 (talk) 09:05, 16 June 2010 (UTC) Fret not. The amount of water needed to operate a canal is minimal. For example, I used to be a pilot on the Chicago and Illinois Rivers, both used to feed Lake Michigan. Both are now reversed and run from Lake Michigan to the Missippi, yet the Lake level is within 1 meter of it's level in 1860. The Caspian is much larger. Besides, we Americans are fond of the saying,"You just can't put too much water in the nuclear reactor". ;) Dean — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.239.119.18 (talk) 19:30, 20 July 2012 (UTC)