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Water Shortages Threaten Over A Million As Yangtze Water Level Dips

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:59 AM EST
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Chongqing, China (AFP) March 08, 2007
More than a million people in one of China's biggest inland cities are facing water shortages after the level of the Yangtze river dropped to near historic lows, local authorities said Thursday. An official of the water agency for Chongqing, home to six million people, said the city had sounded alarm bells after the Yangtze reached its third-lowest level on record in late February.

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