Yangtze Drought Cuts Into Water for 1M
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BEIJING - Falling water levels in China's Yangtze River have left 1 million people short of drinking water, state media reported Monday.
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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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"There's several feet of water. It's contaminated with sewage and everything. We can't wade through it because it's not safe"  A man tries to avoid getting wet as the banks of the River Aire in Leeds city centre, northern England, are broken by heavy rain fall, Monday June 25, 2007. via The Macon Telegraph
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China&#39;s Minister of Water Resources on Monday said China would have an average annual water shortage of 40 billion cubic meters, if it stopped over-tapping groundwater.
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BEIJING, Sept. 11 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- In many parts of the world, good quality fresh water resources are becoming increasingly scarce.
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Polluters along two of China's main rivers have defied a decade-old clean-up effort, leaving much of the water unfit to touch, let alone drink, and a risk to a sixth of the population, state media said on Monday.
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BHUBANESWAR, India  - Flooding triggered by   monsoon rains in the past few days have left 1.5 million people   homeless and damaged thousands of acres of paddy crop in the   eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials said on Sunday.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Water levels are falling in some parts of flood-hit Pakistan, enabling rescuers to reach areas cut off for days, but more bad weather is on the way, officials said on Monday.
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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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China&#39;s Sichuan province faced the threat of epidemics 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 Ma Lie  XI'AN: The Weihe River, the largest tributary of the Yellow River and the main source of water for Shaanxi Province in Northwest China is seriously short of water, according to a recent environmental investigation.
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Water was released from three Chinese dams in response to an ongoing drought that has shrunk drinking water supplies for 5 million people nationwide.
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BEIJING -- At least 143 people in southwestern China have been killed and dozens more are missing in massive floods and landslides triggered by torrential summer rains, officials and state television reported yesterday.
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By Zheng Lifei  Gu Zhaodi had never had to think about water. It was taken for granted. In fact, no one in this beautiful lake city of Wuxi had bothered to spare a thought on one of the most vital elements of life.  But all that changed dramatically overnight last week.
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Plunge in Shanghai reverberates around the world.
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At least 64 people are now known to have died as a result of torrential rain in south-western China. About 70 more are missing in what the Xinhua news agency describes as the most destructive storms of the year in Sichuan province and nearby Chongqing.
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3rd Ld-China Focus: Drought leaves 300,000 people short of drinking water in northwest China    XI'AN, Feb.