China Notes Pollution at Three Gorges Dam
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Chinaâs State Environmental Protection Administration said on Tuesday that water quality is barely improving in the main body of water behind the Three Gorges Dam.
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China announces plans to clean up a badly-polluted major lake after an algae bloom cut off water supplies.
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SW China drought not related to Three Gorges, minister says    BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Minister of Water Resources Wang Shucheng on Wednesday denied the correlation between the drought in southwest China last year and the Three Gorges Reservoir.
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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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China's Sichuan province faced the  threat of epidemics on Wednesday 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 ANITA CHANG  BEIJING - China's environmental watchdog ordered factories polluting a scenic lake to stop production Tuesday, following an algae bloom that contaminated the drinking water supply for 2 million people.
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China's huge Three Gorges Dam hydropower project could spark environmental catastrophe unless accumulating threats are quickly defused, senior officials and experts have warned.
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Chinese authorities tried to slow the spread of a toxic spill by building 51 makeshift dams along the tainted river and using fire trucks to pump out polluted water before it reaches a reservoir serving a city of 10 million people, state media said Friday.
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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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Senior officials in Beijing are now grumbling that the megaproject on the Yangtze is turning into an environmental nightmare
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According to a report just released from Environmental Protection Agency, one of every three lakes in the United States and nearly one-quarter of the nation&#39;s rivers contain enough pollution that people should limit or avoid eating fish caught there.
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Recast:China sees one water pollution accident in 2-3 days    BEIJING, Sept.
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By Audra Ang Associated Press  BEIJING - 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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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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"The Chinese government will take concrete measures in energy saving and pollution control and try to meet the targets set in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan"  China will take its responsibilities seriously and contribute to the global cause of environmental protection, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday. via People's Daily Online
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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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Beijing determined to clean up all polluted rivers, lakes by 2010  BEIJING, Dec.14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese national capital will endeavor to make all rivers and lakes within the sixth ring road of the city free of pollution by the year 2010.