A River in Reverse
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Salt seeping up the Pearl River is threatening the delta
By George Wehrfritz
Newsweek International
Jan. 30, 2006 issue - Toxic spills have become all too common in
China's rivers-poisoning the Yellow (diesel), a tributary of the
Yangtze (sulfuric acid) and, most famously, the Songhua (benzene), just
in the last three months. Now southern China's massive Pearl River
faces a more innocuous contaminant: sea salt. This winter, saline flows
have penetrated far into the booming Pearl River Delta, contaminating
tap water used by millions of people in and around the former
Portuguese enclave of Macao.
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