China's Yellow River Choking on Pollution
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China's Yellow River choking on pollution    ZHENGZHOU, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Pollution of the Yellow River, China's second longest river after the Yangtze, is getting worse, with over 66 percent of the water undrinkable, according to a newly released report on Yellow River Water Resources.
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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 Zhu Zhe  The country's top environmental watchdog yesterday called on the coastal city of Xiamen to rethink its plan to allow the construction of a chemical plant and said an environmental impact assessment of the city's urban planning is on the cards.
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SWIFT action by Environment Agency staff helped prevent a North Wales river from being badly polluted after a tanker crash.   An estimated 4,000 litres of red diesel spilled into the Afon Elwy, near Pandy Tudur, Llanrwst, last Friday.
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Boats have become a necessary means of transport in the flooded streets of Quxian, north-east of Sichuan province. Picture:Reuters.
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About 460,000 Chinese die prematurely each year from breathing polluted air and drinking dirty water, according to a World Bank study.
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Enterprises violating environmental protection rules in China will struggle to get bank loans    BEIJING, Feb.
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By SCOTT McDONALD  BEIJING - China's environmental watchdog admitted Monday the country had failed to reach any of its pollution control goals for 2006 and had fallen further behind as the economy picked up speed.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Official Urges Legislature To Hold Governments Accountable for Pollution" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Silt-washing operation begins in Yellow River    ZHENGZHOU, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The annual operation of flushing silt from the ailing Yellow River, China's second longest waterway, into the Bohai Sea, began on Tuesday.
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A senior Chinese official tells the BBC the country's environmental problems have reached crisis levels.
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38 bln tons of waste water flows into China's three major rivers last year    BEIJING, Dec.
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Officials in Spain are struggling to contain a highly toxic chemical river spill heading towards the Atlantic.
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In its Water Indicator Report, the agency says the pollution of groundwater supplies has worsened in many areas over the past 12 months, reversing the trends reported in recent years.  However, there has been a slight improvement in the pollution levels in some rivers.
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By He Na  CHANGCHUN: Authorities in Northeast China's Jilin Province have announced a new target for improving the water quality of the Songhua River, one of the most heavily polluted in the country.
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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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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviable poor reputation.