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by Ling Li on August 23, 2007 Early last month, China’s top environmental authority, the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), announced a decision to suspend the approval of all new industrial projects in 13 cities and industrial parks along four major rivers that are suffering from severe water pollution—the Hai, Huai, Yangtze, and Yellow.
by Ling Li on June 26, 2007 A large outbreak of blue-green algae last month on eastern China’s Lake Tai—the country’s third largest freshwater lake—has contaminated the main drinking water source of Wuxi, cutting the tap water supply for the city’s 2 million residents for almost three days.
by Jianqiang Liu on May 1, 2007 China is home to three of the top ten “rivers at risk” worldwide, according to a report released in March by the conservation group WWF.
by Ling Li on April 17, 2007 China’s Ministry of Agriculture has announced that the nation will expand its corn output to more than 150 million tons on some 26.8 million hectares of land in 2010, up from 144 million tons last year. The move is fueled by booming corn demand for livestock feed and industrial uses.
by Ling Li on April 3, 2007 The recent closing of China’s first organic supermarket, the “O Store” in Shanghai, due to poor sales has dimmed the vision of eating organic among some Chinese consumers. Middle-class residents of big cities like Shanghai and Beijing are the group most likely to buy organic food, but many have expressed frustration over the higher prices.
by Ling Li on March 6, 2007 A multibillion-dollar channel to be completed this year aims to transfer water over hundreds of kilometers from China’s Yangtze River to the North China Plain, bringing Beijing an extra 1.2 billion cubic meters of water a year to address its worsening water scarcity.
by Ling Li on February 27, 2007 Earlier this month, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Ministry of Water Resources, and Ministry of Construction jointly released a water-saving plan to cut the nation’s water use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 20 percent within five years.
by Ling Li on December 21, 2006 In early December, the Yellow River, China’s second longest, turned red for the third time in three consecutive months. The discoloration, which authorities say was caused by industrial contamination, occurred in the section of the river running through Lanzhou, the capital of western Gansu province and a city of 2 million people.
by Yingling Liu on November 9, 2006 As of the end of 2005, China was desalinating 120,000 cubic meters of seawater daily, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country’s top economic planner, told the People’s Daily.
by Ke Zhang on September 26, 2006 On September 14, a Beijing-based environmental organization began operating China’s first public database of nationwide water pollution. The so-called China Water Pollution Map enables users to survey water quality, monitor pollution discharges, and track pollution sources using digital mapping.
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