For over two thousand years, it has been playing a role in the Chengdu Plainflood irrigation, as people from the flood, the vast" the land of abundance".
两千多年来，它一直发挥着防洪灌溉作用，使成都平原成为水旱从人、沃野千里的“天府之国”。
2
Rainfall was limited, and what water there was rushed across the plain in the annual flood of melted snow.
降雨量有限，每年融化的雪水洪流冲过平原，成为滋润此地的水源。
3
Public interest litigation has threatened to slow down some construction, such as the Olympic Village being built in the floodplain of the Yamuna River.