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[quote=MAY001,235251]Yang Weize, party secretary of Wuxi, a thriving Jiangsu industrial and tourism centre with an urban population of more than 2.3 million, vowed on Wednesday to guarantee safe drinking water "at all costs", Xinhua said.

An unnamed spokesman for the city government told a local newspaper that about one-third of residents still had tap water untainted by algae. Officials have been constantly monitoring the lake and ensuring bottled water is available, he said.

Many of China's lakes and rivers are threatened by run-off from fertilisers, dumped industrial waste and untreated sewage. Algae blooms can burst out in water rich in nutrients from farm and domestic run-off. Xinhua cited experts as saying low water levels this year had encouraged the outbreak.

Taihu Lake is the country's third biggest, covering 2,338 square km, according to the Ministry of Water Resources. Levels of pollution from farm and industry run-off have risen in recent years, the ministry has reported.[/quote]

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