Algae Blamed for Wuxi Water Shortage
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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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XINTAI, China, Aug. 23 -- The first sign of trouble was a stream of water that burst from a wall deep in the mine, Wang Kuitao recalled. Within minutes, he said, the water was everywhere, rushing down the shaft carrying tons of mud. Another disaster was on the way, Wang quickly concluded, one mor...
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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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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 10--BRADENTON BEACH -- The knee-deep stacks of rotting algae lining the beaches of Sarasota County have been sending the tourists north to Manatee County.
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3rd Ld-China Focus: Drought leaves 300,000 people short of drinking water in northwest China    XI'AN, Feb.
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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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By Jack Minch, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Dec. 8--PELHAM. -- An unidentified chemical from China is apparently to blame for the sickness a worker suffered at the William Scotsman Corp. yesterday afternoon.
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A toxic algae bloom off the coast of Washington state has grown to about 30 miles wide, the largest and most potentially lethal algae yet found by scientists in the region.
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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN  SHANGHAI, China - Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday ordered a formal probe into the massive algae growth that smothered one of China's biggest lakes, drawing high-level attention to growing threats facing the country's water bodies.
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Chemical spill threatens water supply for 80,000 residents in Spain's Galicia    MADRID, Sep. 3 (Xinhua) -- A highly toxic chemical spill is threatening the water supply of about 80,000 residents in Spain's Galicia region, local officials said Sunday.
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As many as 2,000 people have been working on a lake in eastern China each day to remove fetid blue-green algae that is again threatening the water supply for millions of people, state media reported today.
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Clearing algae from pools and rivers could significantly curb the spread of malaria, research carried out in Mexico indicates.
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Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday ordered a formal probe into the massive algae growth that smothered one of China's biggest lakes, drawing high-level attention to growing threats facing the country's water bodies.
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By COLLEEN DISKIN and ALEX NUSSBAUM, STAFF WRITERS  Seventy percent of the state's waters  including crucial sources of drinking water such as the Oradell and Wanaque reservoirs  fail to meet federal pollution standards.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 11 September: Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan said on Sunday that the government will make greater efforts to promote water efficiency and control widespread water pollution.
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China is the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, but contaminated water has created serious food safety and environmental problems.
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SHANGHAI, China - A southern Chinese province was rushing to shore up dams eroded by weeks of heavy rains and high waters that already have killed at least 76 people, state media reported Wednesday.