Amazing good deed/

It tasks people in the West to believe that true socialist economies are able to take their people into prosperity to the degree enjoyed by free market economies. Thus 60 years of Castro's economic socialism cannot compare with the prosperity enjoyed by China's current type of economic socialism that is strongly flavoured with its Western free market economic additives.
Without money, no nation can do anything of significance for the greater common good of its people. It was for this, whilst Mao Zedong knew that China's south was overflowing with good drinking water, her north was parched. So he proposed to shift the water resources of the south to the north. But it was not something that could have been done in his life time . . . certainly not after his catastrophic Great Leap Forward fiasco.
It is now 2016, It is now 46 years after Mao's death. And today his water insight is near fulfillment:

http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/1126/c90000-9147472.html.

This is an extra-ordinary accomplishment.

Will we, rich with our drinking water resources in the basin of the North American Great Lakes consider helping the parched of the South Western United States. No! We are in fear of our loss of that water which we prefer to allow it to evaporate and to drain away into the St. Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean.