从全国水利厅局长会议上获悉，举世瞩目的南水北调工程的前期工作正在紧锣密鼓加紧进行中．水利部部长汪恕诚介绍说，为了加快南水北调前期工作，不久前水利部、国家计委联合召开了南水北调前期工作座谈会，对有关工作进行了部署． 南水北调前期工作的核心是按照“先节水后调水 It was learned from the meeting of the director of the National Water Conservancy Bureau that the preparatory work for the well-known South-to-North Water Diversion Project is in full swing. Minister of Water Resources Wang Shucheng introduced that in order to speed up the preliminary work of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the Ministry of Water Resources and the State Development Planning Commission jointly held a forum on the preliminary work of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project recently and arranged for the work. The core of the preliminary work of South-North Water Diversion is to follow the principle of ”water-saving after water-saving