Yangtze River Beyond Repair?

Well, this shows little faith in the ability of Nature, or the planet, to heal itself. Now, in our lifetimes? well that could be very well stretching it. Until then, this is the reality on the ground...

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China's massive Yangtze river, a lifeline for tens of millions of people, is seriously polluted and the damage is almost irreversible, a state-run newspaper said Monday.

More than 370 miles of the river are in critical condition and almost 30 percent of its major tributaries are seriously polluted, the China Daily said, citing a report by the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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"The impact of human activities on the Yangtze water ecology is largely irreversible," Yang Guishan, a researcher at the institute, was quoted as saying.

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The Yangtze accounts for 35 percent of China's total fresh water resources, the report said.

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The Yangtze is about 3,860 miles long and runs from the Tibetan plateau to the sea near Shanghai, passing through some of China's major cities, such as Chongqing and Nanjing.