China to clean up polluted lake
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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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Wu Lihong warned for years that pollution was strangling his beloved Lake Tai.
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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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China is holding a "no-car day" in 108 cities on Saturday as it tries to clean up its notoriously smoggy skies, a task made more urgent by the approach of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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The Chinese government announces a crackdown on plastic bags, in a bid to cut pollution and save resources.
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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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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Enterprises Violating Environmental Protection Rules in China Will Struggle To Get Bank Loans" - Xinhua headline]  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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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 12--LINFEN, China -- Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.   It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 14 December: The Chinese national capital will endeavour to make all rivers and lakes within the sixth ring road of the city free of pollution by the year 2010.
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A Chinese Communist Party official on Wednesday promised a "clean" 2008 Olympics, one day after the party expelled the Beijing vice mayor in charge of Olympic construction projects, accusing him of bribery and other charges, state media said.
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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 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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A stretch of China's Yellow River runs red for the second time in a month because of pollution, media says.
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LUANXIAN, China  - The fate of a campaign by China to curb headlong investment and start cleaning up its polluted environment turns on businessmen like Cai Nianguang.
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For years men and machines have toiled to clean up Kashmir's mirror-calm Dal Lake to remove choking weeds, lily pads and other water plants that have tarnished the image of the famed tourist attraction.
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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.