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Article: Review article: Silt and the future development of China's Yellow River.
- Article from:
- The Geographical Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
- Author:
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Silt loading is a critical problem in the use of the Yellow River for irrigation, domestic, and industrial water supplies. Nearly all of the silt comes in runoff from the immense and highly erodible Loess Plateau. Salinity has a secondary but widespread effect on irrigation development and groundwater quality. Engineering structures and expanded irrigation have reduced the silt load in the lower reach of the river by half over the last 50 years. Still, the level of the river bed continues to rise higher above the surrounding North China Plain. Millions of rural and urban Jives are threatened by the possibility that an embankment will break and unleash a horrendous flood, ...
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Article: Loess Plateau to Be Given Greener Look
Xinhua News Agency;
June 20, 2001 ;
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... ... China will turn the Loess Plateau, the biggest of its ... 2050) will bring the Loess Plateau on the road to a benign ... ecological development. The Loess Plateau, named after the yellowish ... soil and sand into the Yellow River annually. The Chinese ...
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