From AFP via China Environmental News Digest (link):
Rising pollution levels in China’s Three Gorges reservoir are increasing the risk of an ecological and public health disaster, a leading national scientist says. “After water started to accumulate in the reservoir, the flow rate of the (Yangtze) river dropped, resulting in a decreased ability of the river to clean itself,” the China Business Times quoted environmental expert Shu Weiqun as saying…
Shu also said that state water quality standards were far from adequate, as they only required the monitoring of 35 items, including only four known organic pollutants. The professor said he had discovered 101 organic pollutants in the reservoir.
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