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Government Efforts to Combat River Pollution

Jiangmen’s wastewater treatment capacity increased from 22 percent in 2005 to 70 percent in 2013 by increasing the capacity of the Wen Chang Sha Wastewater treatment plant from 50,000 to 200,000 cubic metres a day.

Between 2007 and

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