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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A lake of eastern China southeast of Wuhan. It is connected to the Yangtze River by canal.
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- noun a lake in central China that is connected to the Chang Jiang by a canal
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Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press LOW WATER: A fishing boat sat abandoned on the bottom of the dried-up Poyang Lake, a vast wetland turned dry by China's worst drought in decades, in Xingzi, Jiangxi Province, China, Thursday.
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Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China and is just one example of how serious the drought has become.
China Grapples with Worst Drought in More Than 50 Years 2011
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Zhou Ke/Xinhua/Zuma Press A man walked on the dried lake bed of Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, in east China's Jiangxi province, Thursday.
Asia in Pictures 2012
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ChinaFotoPress/Zuma Press STRANDED: A boat lay aground on the dry riverbed of Xieshan water area of the Poyang Lake Wednesday in Hukou, Jiangxi Province, China.
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In 2007, tens of millions of people living around Poyang Lake suffered drinking water shortages.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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In 2007, tens of millions of people living around Poyang Lake suffered drinking water shortages.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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In 2007, tens of millions of people living around Poyang Lake suffered drinking water shortages.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Conservation measures are in place at Poyang and some of the other large, shallow lakes, but enforcement is difficult.
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Large shallow lakes like Poyang and Dongting support many rare, endemic aquatic vertebrates and great numbers of waterfowl species, some of which are highly endangered.
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At the very least, it threatens to alter greatly the hydrological cycles fundamental to the ecology of lakes like Poyang and Dongting.
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