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FROM a distance, it is an idyllic scene. The small boat floats idly,
its oars aloft. Sheltered from the sun by a blue-and-white striped
awning, passengers busy themselves around a large silver tea-urn.
Move
a little closer, though, and things don't look - or indeed smell - so
rosy. The waters of the lake are fluorescent green, and the stench of
decay wafts from its surface. Pleasure trips have been a rarity on Lake
Tai since 2007, when the Chinese government declared the lake, some 100
kilometres west of Shanghai, a disaster area. A year of unusual drought
following decades of unchecked pollution had choked the lake with cyanobacterial blooms.
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