Lake in danger of vanishing
NZPA-Reuter Peking China’s second largest freshwater lake was in danger of vanishing within a few decades unless urgent action was taken to halt a huge intake of silt, the Xinhua News Agency said. It said Dongting Lake in the Hunan province in south China had already shrunk from 6000 square km to 2600 sq km, Arid was rising 2.5 cm
a year due to a yearly accumulation of 120 million cu m of silt. The agency said local authorities should plant trees and grass on surrounding areas to stop the silt inflow. The lake’s size was drastically reduced by deliberate land reclamation. Chinese scientists now say the policy was the cause of several ecological disasters.
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Press, 4 December 1985, Page 33
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