Poyang Lake Down to a Puddle

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Harold Thibault, China's Largest Freshwater Lake Dries Up; Drought and new Three Gorges Dam blamed as fishers forced to seek other work and freight trade comes to a halt. Guardian Weekly, Jan 31, 2012 ("This article originally appeared in Le Monde")
http://www.guardian.co.uk/enviro ... water-lake-dries-up
("Under normal circumstances it covers 3,500 sq km, but last month only 200 sq km were underwater")

Note:
(a) list of lakes in China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_in_China
(b) Southwest University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_University
(national university; based in Chongqing; Established 1906)
(c) Hukou County
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_County
(a county under Jiujiang City in Jiangxi Province)
(d) Xinzi County
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xingzi_County
(a county under Jiujiang City)