June 4, 2006
China’s Longest River in Trouble
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China's Xinhua news agency reported that the Yangtze River is "cancerous" with pollution. Environmental experts say industrial waste and sewage, agricultural pollution and shipping discharges are to blame; they are calling for an urgent clean-up, fearing that the pollution could kill the river within 5 years. China is facing a severe water crisis; the government has been spending heavily to clean major waterways like the Yellow, Huaihe and Yangtze rivers.
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