China Approves Plan for Three Gorges Project to Raise Water Level
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 11 September: China's State Council, or Cabinet, has authorized the Three Gorges power plant to raise the water level of the reservoir from the current 135 metres to 156 metres.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Yichang, Hubei Province, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) - Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan has instructed local authorities to improve the lives of people relocated to make way for the gigantic Three Gorges Project.
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The water level of a Tibetan lake threatening to burst its banks and flood a valley in India is rising by as much as nine cm a day and nothing can be done to stop it, an official said on Monday.
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By Photos by Gary Whitney For the Deseret Morning News  When Gary and Susan Whitney went to China this fall, their brains were overwhelmed with images: Rising water in the Yangtze River Gorge. Pandas lazing about in trees. Temples. Pagodas. Soviet-style apartment buildings.
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China has agreed to fund the  construction of a $1 billion hydroelectric dam in mineral-rich  Guinea and renovate a series of state buildings, government  officials in the West African country said on Saturday.
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Artificial rainfall temporarily eases drought in northwest China   XI'AN, Feb.
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By Taylor Bright, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 11--A bill that would create a statewide water permitting system and lay the foundation for water talks with North Carolina and Georgia will be introduced this week in the S.C. legislature.   The bill, sponsored by state Sen.
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Water level rises on China's Yangtze River    WUHAN, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Continuous rain in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, China's longest, pushed up water levels in the middle and lower reaches, local hydrographic departments said on Tuesday.
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China is reported to have sent heavily armed troops to protect its huge Three Gorges Dam against terrorist attack.
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Record rainfall this week triggered floods, landslides and mud flows that killed 152 people in China and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported Sunday.
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China to clean up polluters along Songhua River after repeated chemical spills    BEIJING, Sept.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 14 December: The Chinese national capital will endeavour to make all rivers and lakes within the sixth ring road of the city free of pollution by the year 2010.
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The government gives planning approval for the world's first large-scale wave farm off the Cornish coast.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  [OSC Transcribed Text] ["China To Use 55 Billion Yuan To Settle Problems in Three Gorges Region" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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A massive floodcrest has passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River as devastated communities upstream clean up from floods that killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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China is to invest 24 billion dollars to build four new hydropower generation stations on the Jinsha River, a main tributary of the Yangtze River, state media reported.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["China Sets Water-Saving Target for per Unit GDP Growth by 2010" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.