Major Yangtze Tributary Drying Up
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tributaries to run dry in places, a Canadian-based environmental watchdog
said Saturday.
Local residents and water experts are concerned that the 735-kilometre
which also threaten one of the world's oldest irrigation systems downstream,
Probe International said.
Below the nearly-completed Zipingpu dam,
project, "the
waterbed uncovered," the group, citing online press reports from the
region,
said.
Further upstream in the Nanxin Town of Mou County, "the Min has completely
disappeared and the exposed riverbed almost resembles a desert strewn with
huge rocks and pebbles," it added.
Water experts in
one another without paying attention to the river's water levels.
As many as 15 dams have either been built or are under construction along a
200-kilometre valley following from Sichaun's ancient city of
famous Dujiangyan Irrigation System, a water conservancy project built
during
"The situation could jeopardise the Dujiangyan downstream which functions
as
a comprehensive water web, providing cities and villages along the river
with water for domestic use and irrigation for millions of hectares of
farmland, as well as power for electricity generation," it said.