Water Level Rises on China's Yangtze River
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Water level rises on China's Yangtze River    WUHAN, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Continuous rain in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, China's longest, pushed up water levels in the middle and lower reaches, local hydrographic departments said on Tuesday.
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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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3rd LD-Writethru-China Exclusive: Yangtze drought leaves 1.5 million people short of water    CHONGQING, Feb.
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By Photos by Gary Whitney For the Deseret Morning News  When Gary and Susan Whitney went to China this fall, their brains were overwhelmed with images: Rising water in the Yangtze River Gorge. Pandas lazing about in trees. Temples. Pagodas. Soviet-style apartment buildings.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  May 26--The recent storms that have passed through Pueblo have caused the water level -- and therefore the level of E. coli bacteria -- in local waterways to rise significantly, the City-County Health Department said Friday.
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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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Fishing ban to start on China's Yangtze River    WUHAN, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A three-month fishing ban on the Yangtze River imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture will take effect this Thursday.
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China is to invest 24 billion dollars to build four new hydropower generation stations on the Jinsha River, a main tributary of the Yangtze River, state media reported.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["China Sets Water-Saving Target for per Unit GDP Growth by 2010" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Experts say a large white animal swimming in the Yangtze River is a member of a dolphin species unique to China and feared extinct.
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China's flood-hit Sichuan province faced threats from disease on Wednesday while recovering from the worst flooding in a century as villages downstream on the Yangtze River braced for deluges.
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The death toll from nearly a week of heavy rain in southern China has risen to 71, as reports emerged of authorities deliberately flooding some villages in an effort to save bigger cities.
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The death toll from heavy floods in Dazhou City of southwest China&#39;s Sichuan Province has risen to 34 with 38 missing, an official of the local flood control office announced here Monday.
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China's flood-hit Sichuan province  faced threats from disease on Wednesday while recovering from  the worst flooding in a century as villages downstream on the  Yangtze River braced for deluges.
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WUHAN, China  - 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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By Huang Zhiling  CHENGDU: Continued droughts have left nearly 4 million people in Southwest China's Sichuan Province short of drinking water.  Since early last month, Sichuan has witnessed a rise in rainfall.
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By Christian Hill, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Mar. 3--As the water level rose in Hicks Lake during torrential rains this winter, so did nearby homeowners' fears of flooding.