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| | [China] Yellow River in death throes? [Free Republic] |
 | | KENLI, China -- The Yellow River, the cradle of Chinese civilization, is a dying, severely polluted, seasonal river on the verge of becoming a vast ditch. |
 | | In Inner Mongolia, in a village that lies between the Yellow River and the edge of the Gobi Desert, Tian Shenhai, 64, lives with her husband, son and daughter-in-law, 29-year old Zhang Caiyun, in a house of sun-dried mud and straw, a sand dune washed up against one of its walls. |
 | | When the river reaches the flat North China Plain, this silt settles on the river bed, raising it by 4-6 inches per year. |
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