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 Stories About: China AND news AND rivers and watersheds AND toxics AND Yellow River
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You Be Spillin'
China faces two more toxic river crises |
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10 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| You Be Spillin' China faces two more toxic river crises Two new toxic spills have hit rivers in central China. Last week, cadmium seeped out of silt dredged in a cleanup effort on the industrialized Xiangjiang River, contaminating a 60-odd mile stretch of the waterway, and a broken pipe at a power plant dumped six tons of diesel fuel into a tributary of the Yellow River. Chinese officials are down ... |
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| Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Yellow River (all these topics) |
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