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Article: Water Level of Yangtze River Low in Upper Reaches
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 5, 1998
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The water in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River has been at
its lowest level in the past 36 years, while the middle and lower
reaches have had record high run-off levels.
Jin Xingping, of the Yangtze River Hydrological Bureau, says
that,
in February, the water level of the Jialing River, a major tributary
of the Yangtze, was at its lowest since 1952 and that the average
flow on the upper reaches of the Yangtze was 30 percent less than
the
average for the same period in recent years. He attributes this to
drought ...