Falling lake level reveals 400-year-old stone bridge
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A STONE bridge dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) has been discovered after water levels plunged in China’s largest freshwater lake.
The remains of the 2,930-meter-long bridge, made entirely of granite and dating back nearly 400 years, appeared at Poyang lake in the eastern province of Jiangxi, The Beijing News reported yesterday.
The lake, which has been as large as 4,500 square kilometers in the past, has been drying up in recent years due to a combination of low rainfall and the impact of the Three Gorges Dam, experts say.
CCTV reported in November that drought had shrunk the lake to less than 1,500 square kilometers, threatening the fish and other organisms that inhabit it, and the livelihoods of the nearly 70 percent of local residents who make a living through fishing.
By lowering the level of the Yangtze River, the vast Three Gorges dam project has also caused an increased outflow of water from Poyang and Dongting, a lake in neighboring Hunan Province, experts told The Beijing News, lowering the water levels of both.
In 2012, Chinese authorities air-dropped shrimps and grain over Poyang lake to feed hundreds of thousands of birds at risk of hunger due to drought.
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