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China's third largest freshwater lake faces algae threat
 

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China's third largest freshwater lake faces algae threat   add a comment about this item

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December 2009

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Following last years outbreak, drinking water in China’s Jiangsu province are once again threatened by blue-green algae. Signs of blooms have already been spotted in the southern part of China’s third largest lake, which provides water for thirty million people.

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BLUE-GREEN ALGAE; BLOOMS; EUTROPHICATION

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Drinking Water [3125]; Lakes [17629]; 06. Freshwater Algae [2829]; Blue Green Algae (Cyanobacteria) [2958]; Cyanobacteria (Blue-green algae) [11059]

 
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