From iht.com:
China says it will spend more than $14 billion to clean up a famed lake inundated by so much pollution this year that it became a symbol of the countrys lax environmental regulation of polluting industries.
Officials in Jiangsu Province, in eastern China, posted a notice Friday on a government Web site announcing plans to spend 108.5 billion yuan, or $14.4 billion, for a cleanup of Lake Tai, the countrys third-largest freshwater lake. The campaign would focus initially on eradicating the toxic algal bloom that choked the lake this spring and left more than two million people without drinking water.
