Half of China's rivers have disappeared

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Dead pigs along the riverbank near Shanghai (AP)

From a country of 1.3 billion people and fraught with water shortages, comes a startling new census report that over half the nation's rivers have disappeared. According to the Ministry of Water Resources, China currently has 22,909 rivers, some 28,000 fewer than in the 1990s. The drastic drop is blamed on faulty maps, severe overexploitation of groundwater in 400 cities in China, and severe pollution.

Read more @ World View: Half of China's Rivers Have Disappeared and, for those who don't trust Breidbart, check these out @ https://www.google.com/search?q=Hal...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
 

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