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To: aerosappy who wrote (65043)	5/30/2006 1:32:49 PM
From: SuperChief	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206325

<<<ROGERS is contemplating moving to Shanghai.>>> <Once again Jimmy shows what an asshle he is. Does he not know that the air is unfit to breathe within 20 miles of Shanghai???> May 30, 2006 BEIJING (Reuters) - China's longest river is "cancerous" with pollution and rapidly dying, threatening drinking water supplies in 186 cities along its banks, state media said on Tuesday. Chinese environmental experts fear worsening pollution could kill the Yangtze river within five years, Xinhua news agency said, calling for an urgent clean-up. "Many officials think the pollution is nothing for the Yangtze," Xinhua quoted Yuan Aiguo, a professor with the China University of Geosciences, as saying. "But the pollution is actually very serious," it added, warning that experts considered it 'cancerous'." Industrial waste and sewage, agricultural pollution and shipping discharges were to blame for the river's declining health, experts said. The river, the third longest in the world after the Nile and the Amazon, runs from remote far west Qinghai and Tibet through 186 cities including Chongqing, Wuhan and Nanjing and empties into the sea at Shanghai. It absorbs more than 40 percent of the country's waste water, 80 percent is untreated, said Lu Jianjian, from East China Normal University. "As the river is the only source of drinking water in Shanghai, it has been a great challenge for Shanghai to get clean water,*" Xinhua quoted him as saying. China is facing a severe water crisis -- 300 million people do not have access to drinkable water -- and the government has been spending heavily to clean major waterways like the Yellow, Huaihe and Yangtze rivers.