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Workers clean up floating garbage on the Yangtze Rive near the Three Gorges reservoir in Fengjie County of China's Chongqing municipality
02 Nov 2009
Source: Reuters
 
Workers clean up floating garbage on the Yangtze Rive near the Three Gorges reservoir in Fengjie County of China's Chongqing municipality, November 1, 2009. China is facing an arduous mission to improve water quality as 30 percent of the country's major river drainage areas had not met the state required standard by the end of 2008, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken November 1, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
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