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Article: Pollution control in China's Huai River basin: what lessons for sustainability?
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- Environment
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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IN JULY 2004, a decade after China's central government launched a comprehensive plan to clean up the Huai River basin, a heavy rainfall forced authorities to open water gates in the upper stream of the river, releasing a 500 million--ton torrent of polluted water. The floodwaters flowed over several hundred kilometers, contaminating water and land and killing fish and, in turn, the ducks and other birds that ate the dead fish. Covering five provinces in central China, the Huai River basin nurtures more than 170 million people. The Huai River alone runs over slightly more than 1,000 km (621 miles)--approximately the same length as the Tennessee River in the United States. ...
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Article: CHINA INVESTS CNY14.65BN TO IMPROVE HUAI RIVER
AsiaInfo Services;
June 8, 2006 ;
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... ... China Invests CNY14.65bn to Improve Huai River BEIJING, Jun 08, 2006 (SinoCast via ... 65 billion in the overall treatment of Huai River, a main river in East China, from 2001 ... in 2004, the overall water quality of Huai River had been improved in 2005 and no serious ...
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