East China City Breathes Easy Again, but Water Still Undrinkable
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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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China flooded dozens of evacuated  villages on Tuesday to ease pressure from a swollen river after  torrential rains that have killed more than 100 people  nationwide.
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BEIJING -- China's Sichuan province faced the threat of epidemics yesterday after the worst flooding in a century killed at least 172 people and left scores missing, while water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam swelled.
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By Xin Dingding  Experts have urged the government to strengthen efforts to deal with water pollution in the wake of the Wuxi water crisis.  The Wuxi government has stressed that the incident was "an irresistible natural disaster".
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BEIJING - Fetid algae growth returned to two major lakes in eastern China and covered one-third of their surfaces, but water supply were unaffected, state media reported Monday.
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XIAMEN: This port city in East China's Fujian Province has decided to put a highly polluting chemical project on hold, authorities said yesterday.
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In this inland port city of over 8  million, sprawled out on the banks of the Yangtze river,  China's grand hopes of a consumer boom are palpable.
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Science & environment: China's greatest river has fallen to its lowest level since 1866, threatening endangered species
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Rain-prevention experiments 'satisfactory', claims Beijing Chinese officials have announced that the Beijing Meteorological Bureau has successfully carried out experiments aimed at preventing light rain from washing out the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics on 8 August.â¦
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As urbanites demand better air and water, China's countryside is increasingly becoming a dumping ground.
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More than 100 people have died in floods and landslides in China where dykes protecting a swollen river in the east, which has already prompted tens of thousands to flee their homes, are in danger of being breached.
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By Calum MacLeod  CHONGMING ISLAND, China -- At the mouth of the Yangtze River, an hour by ferry from Shanghai, a new kind of Chinese city will rise from the mudflats and wetlands.
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China mulls new measures in environmental protection    BEIJING, Feb.
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Flood waters receded in parts of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday, but huge areas remained submerged heightening the risk of disease amid questions over why more had not been done to prevent the disaster.
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More than 100 people have died in  floods and landslides in China where dykes protecting a swollen  river in the east, which has already prompted tens of thousands  to flee their homes, are in danger of being breached.
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Transport, power generation and food  supply were back to normal in most of China on Sunday after the  worst winter weather in decades killed scores of people and  caused billions of dollars of damage, authorities said.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 12--LINFEN, China -- Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.   It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night.