Groundwater polluted in 9 out of 10 Chinese cities
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Underground water reserves in around 9 out of every 10 Chinese cities are polluted or over-exploited, and could take hundreds of years to recover, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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China mulls new measures in environmental protection    BEIJING, Feb.
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Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday.
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At least 20 villages along the middle reaches of the Shaying River, the largest branch of the heavily polluted Huaihe River, have been plagued by cancer for more than 10 years.
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As many as 160,000 Arizona homes and businesses could have been exposed to contaminated drinking water over the past eight years because overworked water-quality enforcers were unable to investigate violations fast enough, a state audit reported Thursday.
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East China city breathes easy again, but water still undrinkable   WUXI, Jiangsu, June 2 (Xinhua) -- A team of water pollution experts have succeeded in dispelling the unpleasant odor from the water supply of east China's Wuxi city, but authorities say the water is still not safe to drink.
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By AUDRA ANG  BEIJING - Hundreds of people in northwestern China have been hospitalized with lead poisoning that was likely caused by pollution from a nearby smelter, state media and local officials said Wednesday.
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A Chinese survey shows up to 75 percent of the country&#39;s city-dwellers suffer from poor health, and well-educated people die 10 years earlier than others.
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By SIOBHAN GAFFNEY NEARLY one- third of the rivers and groundwater sources in Ireland are polluted by human, animal, farming and industrial waste, according to a nationwide survey.
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Fast-spreading, foul-smelling blue-green algae smothered a lake in eastern China, contaminating the drinking water for millions of people and sparking panic-buying of bottled water, state media said Thursday.
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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviable poor reputation.
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By Cao Li  SHANGHAI: A fast-spreading, foul-smelling, blue-green algae has smothered a lake in eastern China, contaminating the local water supply for millions of people and sparking panic buying of bottled water in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
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By Li Fangchao  Experts and the public have expressed strong concern over the possible environmental impact of the construction of a massive chemical plant in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, Outlook Weekly reported yesterday.
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By Huang Zhiling  CHENGDU: Continued droughts have left nearly 4 million people in Southwest China's Sichuan Province short of drinking water.  Since early last month, Sichuan has witnessed a rise in rainfall.
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At least 10 people died and thousands were sickened after chemical waste pumped from a tanker was dumped across the capital city in August.
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By Jayne Matthews, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 6--TROY -- Contamination of Silver Creek and other waters in Illinois soon may bring down stricter inspections on above-ground septic tanks that spew cleansed water onto the ground.
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Industrial pollution in China is having a significant impact on local rainfall, according to a scientific study.