3 provinces fail on river targets
By Sun Xiaohua | China Daily | Updated: 2008-04-22 07:25
A fisherman uses cormorants to catch fish in a branch of the Huaihe River in Fuyang, Anhui province, on Friday. The main body of the river, however, is still heavily polluted, an environment ministry report has shown. Dai Wenxue |
Three of the four provinces along the Huaihe River have failed to meet their industrial waster water reduction and treatment target, the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said yesterday.
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