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BEIJING, November 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AGT International [http://agtinternational.com ], one of the fastest growing public safety and security solutions organizations in the world, today announced a partnership with the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC) of the People's Republic of China, to implement the first milestone in a long-term program surrounding the AGT International Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) in the Yellow River's local environment. Within...

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua: "Water From Hebei Eases Beijing Water Shortage"] Beijing, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) - After travelling ten days, water from three big reservoirs in neighbouring Hebei Province arrived on Sunday at Tuancheng Lake in the renowned Summer Palace in Beijing's northwest. It's part of China's massive South-to-North Water Diversion Project which lasts from Sept. 18 to March 10, 2009. During the six months,...

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) YICHANG, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) - Chinese experts said Friday that although the Yangtze River was still at flood season, the plan to raise the water level of the Three Gorges Project water to 175 meters in mid-September would not pose any flood control harm. No exact date was given for starting to do so, which is still awaiting approval from the State Council, the country's Cabinet. This broader timetable,...

By Zhou, Tianjun Yu, Rucong; Chen, Haoming; Dai, Aiguo; Pan, Yang ABSTRACT Hourly or 3-hourly precipitation data from Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42 satellite products and rain gauge records are used to characterize East Asian summer monsoon rainfall, including spatial patterns in June-August (JJA) mean precipitation amount, frequency, and intensity, as well as the...

Silting in Three Gorges Dam less serious than expected, says dam official BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The silting problem in China's mega Three Gorges project is much less serious than expected, said a senior dam official here Thursday. The volume of silt carried downriver to the dam area has been one third of that before the reservoir was impounded in 2003, said Cao Guangjing, vice general manager of the China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC), at a press conference here...

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua: "New Flood Peak Appears on Huaihe River"] HEFEI, July 26 (Xinhua) - Nearly 3,000 people in east China's Anhui Province have been patrolling the embankments on the upper middle reaches of Huaihe River while a new flood peak was passing by early on Saturday. The flood peak, the second this year, reached Wangjiaba, a key hydrological station on the upper middle reaches of Huaihe River, at 4 a.m.,...

A fresh round of sand washing in the Yellow River started on Thursday as water was sluiced out in major reservoirs on the middle and lower reaches of the waterway in central China's Henan Province. The on-going operation, the seventh since this technique was first used in 2002, works by discharging water from three reservoirs -- Wanjiazhai, Sanmenxia and Xiaolangdi -- to clear up the sediment in the river, the country's second-longest waterway. Speeding currents would carry tons of sand into...

By Calum MacLeod BEIJING -- Floods in south China have killed at least 176 people this month and forced the evacuation of 1.6 million people. Yet the deadly start of China's rainy season masks a bigger crisis: not enough water. To tackle the water shortage threatening China's breakneck development, the nation is constructing the world's largest water diversion project. The dramatic scheme aims to defy the laws of nature on a scale that only China would attempt. The plan is to draw...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Yellow River delta estuary is the cleanest in years, state media said on Friday, despite recent reports that most China's second-longest river is so polluted it is unsafe for swimming or drinking. The estuary drains the river, the cradle of early Chinese civilization, into the Bohai Sea off the booming eastern province of Shandong after a winding, 5,400-km (3,300-mile) journey from its source in the Tibet-Qinghai plateau. Environmental protection efforts and...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's longest river is "cancerous" with pollution and rapidly dying, threatening drinking water supplies in 186 cities along its banks, state media said on Tuesday. Chinese environmental experts fear worsening pollution could kill the Yangtze river within five years, Xinhua news agency said, calling for an urgent clean-up. "Many officials think the pollution is nothing for the Yangtze," Xinhua quoted Yuan Aiguo, a professor with the China University of...