China to save lake in desert

Tuesday - May 15, 2012, 03:38pm (GMT+5.5)

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Beijing - China will spend 600 million yuan ($95 million) over the next three years to protect Hongjiannao Lake, the country's largest desert freshwater lake, from shrinking, authorities announced Tuesday.

Hongjiannao has been included by the finance ministry on a list of national lake preservation projects, reported Xinhua.

The lake has shrunk by over 40 percent in the past 15 years. It covered 7,000 hectares in 1996, but has shrunk to 4,000 hectares, and its water level is falling by 60 cm annually, data from the lake's management committee showed.

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