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	china-in-the-news : China-Blog
		China is scouring the world for oil, natural gas and minerals to keep its economic machine humming.
		Zwar prognostiziert er einen gewaltigen Neubaubedarf in China - etwa 120 Millionen zusätzliche Haushalte könnten dort bis 2025 entstehen.
		Schwere Korruption wird in China noch mit der Todesstrafe geahndet.
	www.china-in-the-news.de (4821 words)

	April 7, 2005: Disappearing Lakes, Shrinking Seas
		The Hamoun Lakes and nearby wetlands in Iran and Afghanistan’s Sistan Basin are similarly losing their ability to mitigate floods as they are drying from the damming of the Helmand River and years of drought.
		A survey of remote mountain lakes throughout Europe found that even lakes far from human development were acidified by sulfur and nitrogen deposition and that virtually all were contaminated by heavy metals (such as mercury, lead, and cadmium) and fly ash particles.
		Lakes are not only reservoirs of fresh water and a source of food, but also important habitats for aquatic organisms and waterfowl.
	www.earth-policy.org /Updates/2005/Update47.htm (1410 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lake Mamry (Jezioro Mamry in Mazury lake district)
		Lake Sniardwy (Jezioro Śniardwy in Mazury lake district)
		Lake Kuş or Lake Manyas (Kuş Gölü / Manyas Gölü)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-lakes (209 words)

	News & Views - China Launches Battle Against Lake Pollution (11/20/2001)
		However, the lake's water has become murky because of the industrial and domestic waste discharged into it over the past 20 years, and fast-increasing algae, whose growth is encouraged by the chemicals and warm water from sewage and factories, is also clogging it up.
		Excessive amounts of phosphorous and nitrogen in the lake have been blamed for a rampant outbreak of algae in the lake, which threatens marine life and could turn the lake into a foul-smelling body of dead water.
		Lakes in China China is a country with numerous lakes.
	www.chinahouston.org /news/20011120071241.html (951 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lakes in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is contamination from heavy metals, and the lake water is also highly eutrophic (rich in mineral and organic nutrients that promote a proliferation of plant life) with frequent blooms of blue-green algae, which reduces the dissolved oxygen content.
		Chao Hu is the fifth largest freshwater lake in China, with a surface area of about 750 square km, and it is famous for its beautiful landscape and historic sites.
		Rice, tea, and tung oil are produced in the south, and fruit orchards are cultivated in the upland areas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lakes-in-China (212 words)

	1,000 lakes in China disappear in half century
		He said 75 percent of China's 20,000 natural lakes and thousands of artificial lakes suffered from algae pollution caused by an influx of waste water containing nitrogen, phosphorus and other harmful substances.
		In central China's Hubei Province, known as the "paradise of lakes", 217 lakes with an area larger than one square kilometer have disappeared since the 1950s when 522 large lakes scattered over the province.
		China has 361,100 square kilometers of lakes and 90,000 square kilometers of wetlands, with a freshwater storage of 226 billion cubic meters.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2006-11/01/content_722274.htm (296 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: China Special Report
		As the waters from China's worst flood since 1954 recede in the Yangtze River valley, many people here are hoping that last summer's disaster will become a turning point for China -- a warning to the world's most populous country that it can no longer ravage its environment as it rushes to modernity.
		To understand the complex issues bedeviling China's government, journey to Yangxin, a river-crossed county on the southern banks of the Yangtze in Hubei province, 800 miles from Beijing.
		In addition, if water is returned to the lake beds, Xu predicted, another problem will come back to haunt the county -- the snails that host the "blood-sucking insects" that cause the deadly parasitic disease schistosomiasis, and thrive in the moist soil along the banks of southern China's rivers and lakes.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/china/stories/enviro112298.htm (1239 words)

	Lop Nur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lake system into which the Tarim River empties is the last remnant of the historical post-glacial Tarim Lake, which once covered more than 10,000 square kilometers in the Tarim Basin.
		Though it was determined to be a single salt lake by ancient Chinese geographers, it has largely dried up from its 1928 measured area of 3100 km², and spreading desert, apparently windblown sandy loess, has shifted the lake system 30 to 40 km westwards during the past 40 years [1].
		A partial cause for the destabilization of the desert has been the cutting of poplars and willows for firewood [2]; in response, a reserve was established in 2003 to preserve 3520 square kilometres of Diverse-leaved poplar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lop_Nur (352 words)

	Yangtze - MSN Encarta
		The Yangtze flows a total distance of 6,300 km (3,900 mi), from the Tibetan Plateau in the west to the East China Sea in the east, forming China’s principal navigable waterway and a natural boundary between what is traditionally considered northern and southern China.
		Shanghai, China’s most important port, commands the entrance to the Yangtze Basin, which drains an area of 1,940,000 sq km (750,000 sq mi) and contributes nearly half of China’s crop production.
		Dongting Hu and Poyang Hu, which are connected to the Yangtze, are the biggest lakes in China.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761573429 (1052 words)

	Dartmouth Toxic Metal Research - Research
		The investigators believe that fish from lakes populated by those metal-concentrating zooplankton are likely to have higher levels of metals in their tissue.
		Lakes in China are important sources of fish protein for the general population as well as being subject to relatively high levels of contaminants.
		This pattern is consistent with the observation that lakes with less complex food webs tend to be populated by the large-bodied cladocerans that are strong conduits of metal to fish.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~toxmetal/RSCRaq.shtml (1421 words)

	The Customs of the Thousand Lakes Province
		Fishing boats were scattered all over the lakes and some fishermen standing on the front of the boats were casting nets and some others were catching fish with lampshade-shaped nets.
		When they meet in the lakes on their fishing trips, whether they know each other or not they are friendly.
		Lotus seed picking areas are divided by the villages along the lakes and villagers built watch towers to survey the lotuses.
	www.china-window.com /china_culture/folk_custom/the-customs-of-the-thousa.shtml (1032 words)

	China News---English.China.com---Gateway to China
		Americans have higher rates of several serious diseases including cancer, diabetes and heart disease among Americans aged 50 and older as compared with aging Europeans......
		China urges restraint from all parties in Myanmar
		China on Tuesday called on relevant parties in Myanmar to exercise restraint and properly handle the current problems to avoid complication and escalation of the situation.
	english.china.com /zh_cn/news (506 words)

	List of lakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lake Erie in Ontario, Canada and Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania in the USA
		Lake Superior in Ontario, Canada and Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin in the USA
		Lake Strom Thurmond (Also extends into South Carolina).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_lakes (318 words)

	Deforestation and Desiccation in China
		Of 356 storms observed in the eastern half of northwestern China, 166 came from the Bay of Bengal, 87 from the South China Sea, 19 from the Yellow Sea, and 83 from the East and Yellow Seas.
		Population densities of the provinces in China are substituted in the regression equation and the built-up area is derived.
		China has a total land area of 960.272 Mha, of which 27.8 percent, or 267.429 Mha are defined as "land suitable for forestry." Of the land suitable for forestry, only 46.6 percent, or 124.653 Mha, is actually forested.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /pcs/state/chinaeco/forest.htm (8102 words)

	Agenda 21 - China - Natural Resource Aspects
		By 2010, China plans to achieve her GNP as twice as that in 2000 and a better life for her people; by 2020, to achieve further development of national economy; and by mid 21 century, to basically realize modernization.
		China is one of the countries with the richest biodiversity.
		China is involved in cooperation on international marine legislation, marine living resources in high seas, sea bed mineral resources, marine scientific research, marine environmental protection, polar exploration and peaceful use, and marine affairs cooperation and exchange in the Asia-Pacific Region.
	www.un.org /esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/china/natur.htm (12950 words)

	The Yangzhi River - China's Lifeline
		The source of Chiangjiang, the longest river in China is in the south-west of the Qinghai plateau on Geladandong, the main peak of the Tanggula Mountains.
		On the edge of Wuhan is a large lake area, the East Lake, situated in a huge park that has a number of other sights.
		Yueyang is on the eastern shore of Lake Dongting, one of the largestinland lakes in China which is linked to the Yangzi by several rivers, canals and lakes and serves as a natural water reservoir for the river.
	www.regit.com /regitour/china/intplace/yangzhi.htm (963 words)

	LakeNet - Lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dianchi Lake is located in the Yunnan Province of Southwest China, and is one of the Chinese government's key lake restoration priorities.
		Dianchi is the largest lake in Yunnan Province and one of the ten largest lakes in China.
		The Waihai Lake section of the lake is affected by.2 billion tons of waste water runoff, containing 5,000 tons of total nitrogen and 500 tons of total phosphorus.
	www.worldlakes.org /lakedetails.asp?lakeid=9109 (532 words)

	Freshwater aquaculture development in China
		Up to 20 percent of the total revenue from the lake is obtained from crops which are cultivated in combination with fish farming (Figure 54).
		Poaching appears to be unknown in China, but if it were to be discovered, it is more than probable that it would be severely condemned by the whole community.
		This yield however varies from lake to lake and, in particular, depends on the surface area.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/AD016E/AD016E09.htm (2428 words)

	Saline Lakes
		Most saline lakes are also defined by endorheic drainage basins, so that most slat lakes represent the termini of inland drainage basins in which there is a balance between inputs and outputs.
		Salt lakes may contain water permanently, intermittently or episodically; water levels may be constant or fluctuate widely on a seasonal or secular basis, often in accord with salinity fluctuations; and they range from deep to shallow, small to extremely large, round to dendritic in shape.
		Salt lakes are widespread, occur on all continents, and are often present not far from centres of population.
	lakes.chebucto.org /saline1.html (838 words)

	Study says half of world's lakes are in peril
		Lakes hold nearly 90 percent of all surface freshwater, yet they are "among the most vulnerable and difficult to restore of all natural ecological systems.
		For instance, 543 significant lakes in China disappeared when their water was diverted for irrigation between 1950 and 1980.
		The most dramatic example of this in the United States is Lake Okeechobee in Florida, half the size of Rhode Island, but with an average depth of 10 feet.
	www.greatlakesdirectory.org /zarticles/1114peril.htm (479 words)

	LakeNet - Lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lake Xingkai/Khanka is located on the border of the People’s Republic of China (China) and the Russian Federation (Russia).
		The average lake depth and volume is 4.5m and 18.3km3, respectively.
		The drainage basin of Lake Xingkai/Khanka is a habitat for important animal and plant species of both countries, particularly the wetlands surrounding the lake.
	www.worldlakes.org /lakedetails.asp?lakeid=8619 (509 words)

	Lakes and Rivers in China Identified for Environmental Protection
		Several channels connect the lake with the Yangtze, all of which are controlled by dams to maintain the lake water level.
		The lake is the major source of water for drinking and irrigation.
		Chao Lake has high nutrient concentrations from chemical fertilizer runoff, and therefore frequent algae blooms, which reduce the available oxygen, killing fish and other organisms.
	www.chinacp.com /eng/cppolicystrategy/cp_rivers_lakes.html (1307 words)

	IOL: Acid rain pollutes rivers and lakes in China
		Beijing - More of China's cities are suffering from acid rain and its major rivers and lakes are heavily polluted, the government said on Thursday in a report that highlighted the environmental costs of surging economic growth.
		China's environment has been ravaged by two decades of breakneck growth, and by the pressure of feeding and housing a population of 1,3-billion.
		China is awash in acid rain - green groups
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1117715041170B255 (679 words)

	Troubled Times: Disappearing Lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lakes that are reported to be Disappearing: Lake Chad in Africa, Lake Kleifarvatn in Iceland, and Dojran Lake on the border of Macedonia and Greece.
		In the case of the Ogallala aquifer, for example, the explanation is excessive crop irrigation.
		Owens Lake was dried up because its water source was diverted to Los Angeles; Mono Lake almost suffered the same fate but was saved by environmentalists.
	www.zetatalk.com /theword/tworx430.htm (181 words)

	ENN: Environmental News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WASHINGTON, DC — West Africa's Lake Chad has shrunk to a mere 5 percent of its former size.
		In Israel, the receding shores of Lake Tiberias-also known as the Sea of Galilee-sometimes allow mere mortals to walk where the water once was.
		Rising global temperatures are predicted to increase average lake temperatures by 2-3 degrees Celsius (3.6-5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) over the next 50 years.
	www.enn.com /aff_PF.html?id=524 (1228 words)

	Lakes in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
		Stone Lake : The Poetry of Fan Chengda 1126-1193 (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
		Report on first expedition to glaciers and glacier lakes in the Pumqu (Arun) and Poiqu (Bhote-sun Kosi) River Basins, Xizang (Tibet), China: Sino-Nepa...
	www.freeglossary.com /Lakes_in_China (168 words)

	Xinhua - English
		Currently, most of China's rivers are menaced with shrinkage, disfunction, contamination and other problems like a decrease of swamps, said Chen Bangzhu, director with the population, resources and environment committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the First National Inland Lakes Symposium Wednesday.
		The worsening conditions of these endangered rivers are caused by a booming economy, the expansion of population and irrational development, Chen acknowledged.
		The Tai Lake area in Jiangsu Province, for instance, known as an area teeming with fish and rice, nurtures 3 percent of China's population with its 0.4 percent of the country's territory.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2005-11/23/content_3824849.htm (206 words)

	Fishing Industry
		According to the statistics of 1996, there were more than 280,000 fishing vessels involved in marine catches with a total output of 11.22 million tons. Since the beginning of 1980s, China’s output of marine catches has been continuously growing (see Chart 5).
		China possesses a total inland waters of 176,000 square km (or 17.6 million hectors), accounting for 1.8% of the inland territories. The major rivers and lakes are listed in Table 9 and In addition, there are more than 80,000 reservoirs with a total area of 2 million hectors.
		It is reported that China has 709 freshwater fish species and 58 subspecies, excluding 64 species migrating between sea and inland waters.
	www.lib.noaa.gov /china/fishing.htm (638 words)

	Environmental Protection Agency - The China Region Lakes Alliance
		The China Region Lakes Alliance (CRLA) is a non-profit organization that works to improve and protect the water quality of four lakes in central Maine: China Lake, Threecornered Pond, Threemile Pond and Webber Pond.
		Our members include the lake associations from each of these watershed, the towns they are located in nad the Kennebec County drinking water supply plant.
		China Lake Association, Threecornered Pond Improvement Association, Threemile Pond Association, Webber Pond Association, Town of China, Vasalboro and Windsor and the Kennebec County Water District.
	yosemite.epa.gov /water\adopt.nsf/0/CB8E3F573D2525EE85256D71004DAD49?OpenDocument (275 words)

	Category:Lakes of China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hoyt Lakes is bordered by two beautiful lakes and has direct access to the North Shore of Lake Superior via Forest Highway 11.
		Overall aim is the conservation and restoration of lakes and providing outstanding examples of achieving sustainable development in lake areas.
		Lakes Area Realty is Minnesota's real estate specialist for the Minneapolis Lakes, the entire West Metro, and Wright County areas.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Category:Lakes_of_China (1457 words)

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