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Yangtze River Area, China

With a length of about 6,300 kilometers (almost 4,000 miles), Yangtze is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world. The river basin is the main source of water for hundreds of millions of people and countless animal and plant species but the Chinese government has used the river for the megalomaniac dam projects, cutting hundreds of nearby lakes off the river. The shrinking lakes have been seriously affecting local ecosystems.