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Citizens battle to save China's sickly 'mother river'

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Water has been a source of death as well as a source of life for a generation in Shenqiu country, a region fed by a tributary of China's heavily polluted Yangtze river and pockmarked with notorious "cancer villages".

Added on the 10/01/2020 03:04:00 - Copyright : AFP EN

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