THE water quality in China's Three Gorges reservoir on the Yangtze River is being polluted by discharge from industry and towns upstream of the giant dam, a Chinese environmental scientist said yesterday. ...full story at Shanghai Daily
from Shanghai Daily on Thu, May 24 2007
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