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Article: Reviving China's ruined rivers. (Water Pollution).
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
- Author:
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Throughout history, many of China's people have lived and died by the conditions along her seven major rivers. Today, more than 450 million people depend on the two longest rivers--the Huang (Yellow) and the Yangtze--for water, agriculture, fishing, and other uses. But over the past 20 years, water quality in these rivers has deteriorated to a grave state. According. to the 2001 World Bank report China: Air, Land, and Water--Environmental Priorities for a New Millennium, significant stretches of the two riverways are classified as unsuitable for human contact by the Chinese State Environmental Protection Administration. And according to the central government's 1996 report ...
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