Dam plans to protect biggest freshwater lake

JIANGXI Province plans to build a 2,800-meter dam to protect Poyang Lake, the country’s largest freshwater lake, from the impact of the Three Gorges Dam, the Oriental Morning Post reported yesterday. The lake has shrunk…

Drought affects 35 million, no end in sight

Fishing boats are stranded on grassland, which was once the bed of Poyang Lake- China’s largest fresh water lake, in Jiujiang,East China’s Jiangxi province, on Saturday. Because of a severe drought, the area of Poyang…