(May 27, 2007) Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has called for strengthened efforts in flood control and disaster relief in a season of heavy rains and floods in the Yangtze River, China’s longest.
China braces for extreme flooding
Chinese authorities are preparing for potentially catastrophic floods along the Yangtze River where the giant Three Gorges dam is being built as the country braces itself for extreme summer weather conditions.
Heaviest floods since 1998 could hit Yangtze valley
(May 24, 2007) The most "severe floods" since 1998 might hit the Yangtze River this summer, a senior flood-control official warned yesterday.
China’s environment declining
(May 23, 2007) China’s environmental situation is deteriorating, with several major rivers and lakes clogged by industrial waste, state media said Tuesday.
Three Gorges Dam is hurting river, study finds
(May 21, 2007) China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydropower project, is retaining huge amounts of sediment and nutrients and causing significant erosion in the downstream reaches of the Yangtze River, researchers have found.
More residents evacuated after fresh landslide in China
(May 17, 2007) More than 100 residents have been evacuated after a fresh landslide occurred in another village of central China’s Hubei Province on Wednesday, local sources said.
Residents evacuated after massive landslides in China
(May 14, 2007) All the 658 residents living near a landslide area in central China’s Hubei Province had been evacuated by Monday afternoon.
Chongqing pollution crackdown
Chongqing, the biggest industrial city on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, will spend 430 million yuan (US$56.01 million) in harnessing water pollution caused by vessels.
Yellow River is 10% sewage: Official
(May 11, 2007) In the past 12 months, some 120 million tons of household sewage, mostly untreated, have been released into the Yellow River in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province in Northwest China, a report by China Central Television (CCTV) said on Wednesday.
Volume of pollutants exceeds 13m tons
(May 11, 2007) A study was conducted last year of 30 of the country’s major rivers that carry processed water to the sea. Their combined run-off volume accounted for 81.5 percent of the nation’s total.
Three Gorges landslide threat forces villagers to flee
(May 9, 2007) Nearly 100 villagers living upstream from the Three Gorges dam have been forced to leave their homes under threat of a landslide, which officials fear was disturbed during the filling of the dam’s reservoir last year, Xinhua News Agency reported this week.
China firm to build Myanmar hydro-power plants
(May 5, 2007) A Chinese firm will help military-run Myanmar build seven hydro-electric plants with combined power capacity likely to be the biggest in the Southeast Asian country, state media said on Saturday.
Chinese government, companies ordered to release pollution figures
(April 27, 2007) China’s State Environment Protection Administration will enact a new measure from May 1, 2008, asking China’s environmental departments and polluters to publish information regarding environmental degradation and pollution.
China environment official wants action by citizens
(April 26, 2007) A top Chinese environmental official said on Wednesday that greater citizen involvement was needed to rein in the country’s powerful polluters as he announced new transparency rules.
Delegates speak out in defence of rivers
River-related news from the two important political meetings held this month in Beijing included calls to tackle risks related to silt buildup in the Three Gorges reservoir, to curb dam-building on China’s rivers and to protect rare fish in the Yangtze.
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