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Photo Map: Bitter Waters

See the toll taken by explosive growth along the Yellow River's banks.

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But today, what the Chinese call the Mother River is dying. Stained with pollution, tainted with sewage, crowded with ill-conceived dams, it dwindles at its mouth to a lifeless trickle. The Yellow's plight also illuminates the dark side of China's economic miracle, an environmental crisis that has led to a shortage of the one resource no nation can live without: water.]]> View Map > <![CDATA[Credits]]> Managing Editor: Rob Covey
Art Director: Shawn Greene
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Producer: Paul Heltzel]]> img/cloud-seeding-madoi-690.jpg <![CDATA[Madoi]]> img/pollution-factory-mongolia-690.jpg <![CDATA[Inner Mongolia]]> img/advertising-swan-shaanxi-690.jpg <![CDATA[Shanxi Province]]> img/coal-plant-liulin-690.jpg <![CDATA[Liulin]]> img/dam-sheep-sanmenxia-690.jpg <![CDATA[Sanmenxia Dam]]> img/farmer-loess-plateau-690.jpg <![CDATA[Loess Plateau]]> img/panoramic-lanzhou-690.jpg <![CDATA[Lanzhou]]> img/plastic-bubbles-shizuishan-690.jpg <![CDATA[Shizuishan]]> img/pollution-well-nagao-690.jpg <![CDATA[Nagao]]> img/tibetan-relocation-qinghai.jpg <![CDATA[Qinghai]]> img/water-beijing-690.jpg <![CDATA[Beijing]]>