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BEIJING (AP) - A city in northeastern China has been forced to take emergency measures to deal with an outbreak of blue-green algae in a reservoir that provides water to the city, state media reported Monday.
The algae outbreak in Changchun comes after similar problems in lakes in other parts of China.
But while appearances of blue-green algae in Lake Tai in eastern China and Dianchi Lake in southwestern China "were mainly attributed to pollutants from chemical factories," the problems in Changchun were the result of farm fertilizer, Xinhua News Agency said.
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