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U.S. News and World Report: China's thriving economy, already large, has been growing at a rate faster than that observed in most developed countries. But there has been a price for this growth. The air in China's largest cities is among the worst in the world because of pollution. And now comes more bad news: China's freshwater lakes have been shrinking.
A new report says that over the period from 1960-2005 Chinese lakes have shrunk in size and in number. The total area of Chinese lakes over that period shrank by 13 percent......
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China’s shrinking lakes
Posted by U.S. News and World Report: Phillip F. Schewe on March 10th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation