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Silt amount goes down in Yangtze River, Dongting Lake
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WUHAN: The amount of silt in the Yangtze River, China's longest,
continues to decline, according to a recent survey of hydrological
monitoring centres.
The latest issue of the "Yangtze River Silt Bulletin" shows the
average sand content dropped by 59 per cent in Yichang and 45 per
cent at Shashi in 2003.
Chen Songsheng, a deputy chief engineer of Hydrological Bureau of
the Yangtze River Water Resources Committee, attributed the
sustainable dropping of silt to water and soil conservation and
construction of facilities for holding back silt at major reservoirs.
China has built 12,000 reservoirs ...
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