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COMMENTS: Mountains and Water
Yesterday we were unable to link to Terry McCarthy's feature for ABC on peasant poverty along the Yangtze River. Better luck today. Check out McCarthy's A Closer Look at "mountains and water--the classical images of Chinese art" in the Yangtze's spectacular Three Gorges. He walked over "the biggest hydroelectric project in the world" whose reservoir has displaced 1.5m people, inspecting its giant ship locks. The dam has so slowed down the Yangtze's current that pollutants are accumulating: "Phosphorus and nitrogen levels are ten times higher than a decade ago; sewage has doubled since 2000." Yet still a local uses the water to practice his backstroke.
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