Asian Diver (English)

Yangtze River China 6,300km

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Longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world

River basin is home to nearly

500 million people, nearly a third of the country’s population

Longest in the world to flow

entirely within one country

Yangtze River basin accounts for 40% of China’s freshwater resources, more than 70% of rice production and more than 70% of fishery production

EFFECTS OF POLLUTION

Siltation and loss of wetlands and lakes

POLLUTION: HOW & WHO

• According to the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission’s 2017 report, annual discharge of sewage and industrial waste was 35.3 billion tonnes (47% of China’s total sewage discharge)

• Agricultur­al run-off from farms

along its banks

• Industrial pollution from industrial belts and high-tech developmen­t zones around the Yangtze

• Extensive loss of floodplain­s to agricultur­e has reduced basin’s ability to detoxify pollutants

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