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BOYS RUNNING IN WATERLOGGED STREET, ONE LYING DOWN ON GROUND, BLURRED

Boys running in waterlogged street, one lying down on ground, blurred (KEYSTONE/PHOTOALTO/Corinne Malet)

POLLUTED POND

Polluted pond (KEYSTONE/PHOTOALTO/Jean-Luc Dolmaire)

FLOODED RIVER

Flooded river (KEYSTONE/PHOTOALTO/Jean-Luc Dolmaire)

STURMFLUT AN DER UNTERWESER, UEBERSTROEMEN DES DEICHS, STROHAUSER PLATE, NIEDERSACHSEN, DEUTSCHLAND|STORM SURGE ON THE LOWER WESER RIVER, WATER OVERFLOWING A DYKE, STROHAUSER PLATE, LOWER SAXONY, GERMANY

Sturmflut an der Unterweser, ueberstroemen des Deichs, Strohauser Plate, Niedersachsen, Deutschland|Storm surge on the lower Weser River, water overflowing a dyke, Strohauser Plate, Lower Saxony, Germany (KEYSTONE/imageBROKER/Volker Lautenbach)

BEGINN EINER STURMFLUT AN DER UNTERWESER, STROHAUSER PLATE, NIEDERSACHSEN, DEUTSCHLAND|BEGINNING OF A STORM SURGE ON THE LOWER WESER RIVER, STROHAUSER PLATE, LOWER SAXONY, GERMANY

Beginn einer Sturmflut an der Unterweser, Strohauser Plate, Niedersachsen, Deutschland|Beginning of a storm surge on the lower Weser River, Strohauser Plate, Lower Saxony, Germany (KEYSTONE/imageBROKER/Volker Lautenbach)

NOAH'S THANK-OFFERING, UNKNOWN DATE.

Noah's Thank-offering, Unknown date. Noah's Thank-offering. Creator: Ester Almqvist. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/HERITAGE ART)

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Salvadorean villagers carry a dugout canoe to higher ground so that it won't get washed away by flash floods in the swamped streets of Dolores Apulo, on the shore of Lake Ilopango, El Salvador Sunday, Oct. 9, 2005. Some 71 people were killed and 71,461 people were forced to ecacuate in El Salvador from the effects of heavy rains related to Hurricane Stan in the Gulf Coast of Mexico.(AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)

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Friends and family members grieve over the body of Zhang Jun, a military fireman who died when trying to rescue villagers in a flood, in Kaixian, in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality Wednesday Sept. 8, 2004. The death toll from flooding and landslides in mountainous southwestern China rose to 177 on Thursday, as authorities warned residents to brace for fresh storms. (AP Photo/str) ** CHINA OUT, ONLINE OUT **

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Some buildings in the ancient Ciqikou Street blocks in Shapingba District of Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, are submerged by floods on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2004. As the water level keeps on rising, some residents living in the ancient Ciqikou Street blocks in downtown Chongqing have been evacuated with the street partly submerged. By 18:00 Sunday, heavy rainstorms have hit 17 urban districts and counties in Chongqing, affecting 1.18 million people. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Zhou Hengyi)

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Chinese residents clean up after flood waters left a trail of mud and ravaged tress in Dazhou, Sichuan, Southwestern China Tuesday, Sept 7, 2004. Floods unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 100 people and left dozens more missing in southwestern China, prompting authorities to put the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric project on alert, officials reported Tuesday. (AP Photo/str) ** ONLINE OUT, CHINA OUT **

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Chinese residents wait in queue for clean water after flood waters affected their water, power and gas supplies in Dazhou, Sichuan, Southwestern China Tuesday, Sept 7, 2004. Floods unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 100 people and left dozens more missing in southwestern China, prompting authorities to put the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric project on alert, officials reported Tuesday.(AP Photo/str) ** ONLINE OUT, CHINA OUT **

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Houses at Chongqing's Caiyuanba bamboo wholesale market, which is located near the upper-reaches of the joint of the Yangtze River and Jialing River, on Monday 06 September 2004 in Chongqing, Hunan Province. Days of heavy rain in Chongqing Municipality have swamped entire villages and ruined huge swathes of farmland. Floods and landslides have killed 76 people in southwest China in the past four days, washing away homes and roads, knocking down power lines and leaving at least one city cut off, state media said on Monday 06 September 2004 . EPA/STR

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Three men paddle a raft in the flood water at Chongqing's Caiyuanba bamboo wholesale market, which is located near the upper-reaches of the joint of the Yangtze River and Jialing River, on Monday 06 September 2004 in Chongqing, Hunan Province. Days of heavy rain in Chongqing Municipality have swamped entire villages and ruined huge swathes of farmland. Floods and landslides have killed 76 people in southwest China in the past four days, washing away homes and roads, knocking down power lines and leaving at least one city cut off, state media said on Monday 06 September 2004 . EPA/STR

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Workers reinforce the Zhaojiazhen Bridge endanged in the floods in Kaixian, Chongqing, Sunday 05 September 2004. Floods and landslides have killed 76 people in southwest China in the past four days, washing away homes and roads, knocking down power lines and leaving at least one city cut off, state media said on Monday 06 September 2004 . EPA/NIU ARMSTRONG

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The remaining floods in Kaixian, Chongqing, Sunday 05 September 2004. Floods and landslides have killed 76 people in southwest China in the past four days, washing away homes and roads, knocking down power lines and leaving at least one city cut off, state media said on Monday 06 September 2004 . EPA/NIU ARMSTRONG

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A peasant stands in his field destroyed by flood water watching the receding water in Kaixian, Chongqing, Sunday 05 September 2004. Floods and landslides have killed 76 people in southwest China in the past four days, washing away homes and roads, knocking down power lines and leaving at least one city cut off, state media said on Monday 06 September 2004 . EPA/NIU ARMSTRONG

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Floods have delayed about 1,000 barges at the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in Zaozhuang, Shandong province, China on Thursday, 02 September 2004. The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, which as built in the fifth century BC, remains an important transport waterway in China. EPA/Wu hong

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Tractors carrying villagers and their belongings drive along a road during a flooding evacuation drill in Dali County, in China's Shaanxi Province, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2004. The county, situated in a low-lying area adjacent to the Yellow River, is at risk of being inundated when waters rise in summer flooding. More than 100,000 people were affected by last year's summer floods in Shaanxi. Red banners read: "Disaster rescue vehicle." (AP Photo/Str) ** CHINA OUT ONLINE OUT **

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Some young men try to lift up the trunks in the water to repair the damaged dike in Yingjiang County, Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Dehong in southwest China's Yunnan Province Monday, July 26, 2004. Floods and mud-rock flows struck Yingjiang County twice, on July 5 and July 20, respectively. The latter disaster left 12 people dead and 48 missing, affecting 70,000 people in 21 towns, and causing a direct economic loss of 157 million RMB (18.9 million US dollars). Now the residents in the disaster-hit areas are making efforts to resume normal life. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Wang Changshan)

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An old man reads a newspaper by a pair of marble lions in the doorway of a courtyard house on Monday, 26 July 2004. China is suffering a bout of heavy weather nationwide with severe droughts in some areas occuring at the same time time as severe floods in others. EPA/Adrian Bradshaw

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Flood victims at Lushan Village in Yingjiang County, southwest China's Yunnan province, pass on stones to reinforce a dyke damaged in floods on Friday July 23, 2004. People have begun reconstruction in the flood-stricken areas in the county. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Xinhua, Wang Changshan)

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** FILE ** A file photo dated April 14, 2004 showing the covered storm bridge, a protected national heritage site in Liping, Guizhou, southwestern China. Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that the 121 year old bridge was destroyed by flood waters on Tuesday, July 22. The county government has asked local residents along the river to help salvage the washed away parts of the bridge. (AP Photo/str) ** ONLINE OUT, CHINA OUT **

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Chinese residents attempting to make their way home on a make shift boat after heavy rain flooded their homes in Binyang, south China's Guangxi, Tuesday July 20, 2004. China's death toll rose Thursday above 400 from the flooding and landslides unleashed by its heavy summer rains, while hundreds of thousands of people were stranded and soldiers helped residents evacuate towns where muddy waters rose up to windowsills. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/str) === ONLINE OUT, CHINA OUT ===

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A Chinese farmer looks at his flooded fields in Binyang, south China's Guangxi, Tuesday July 20, 2004. China's death toll rose Thursday above 400 from the flooding and landslides unleashed by its heavy summer rains, while hundreds of thousands of people were stranded and soldiers helped residents evacuate towns where muddy waters rose up to windowsills. (AP Photo/str) ** ONLINE OUT, CHINA OUT **

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A picture date Friday 16 July 2004 shows people on a raft on a flooded street in Chongqing city, the largest city in Southwest China. Excessive rainfall caused floods in Chongqing and brought inconvenience to local people. Heavy rains and floods hammered six southern and central provinces in China killing at least 380 people and driving 100,000 from their homes. EPA/STR

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People dig for a car and passengers buried during a mudslide in Dehong Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunan Province Saturday, July 10, 2004. Mudslides in Yunnan caused by torrential rains have killed 17 people and left 25 missing, and caused losses of 530 million yuan (US$64 million). (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Str) === CHINA OUT ONLINE OUT ===

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A taxi is trapped by flood waters in a street in Changchun, in northeast China's Jilin Province Friday July 9, 2004. Flooding and landslides set off by heavy summer rains have killed 288 people and destroyed thousands of homes over the past week in central and southern China. (KEYSTONEAP Photo/str) === CHINA OUT, ONLINE OUT ===

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Residents watch muddy flood waters in a street in Lantian, in China's Shaanxi Province Tuesday June 29, 2004. A rainstorm caused a mudslide which detroyed dozens of houses and 600 acres of farmlands. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/str) === CHINA OUT, ONLINE OUT ===

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Villagers walk on a road partially damaged by flood in Yuanling, in central China's Hunan Province Friday, 25 June 2004. Rainstorm in Hunan so far killed 23 and left 24 missing, causing 168,000 people evacuated from their home. The disaster caused 3 billion yuan ($362 million) in damage. (KEYSTONE/EPA/YIN GE)

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Chinese look out over flood waters at the Dongting Lake waterfront at Yueyang, in China's central Hunan province Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2002. Though water levels have dropped about two feet from their peak on the lake, they remain above danger levels, threatening six cities and dozens of villages in surrounding areas. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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A local woman rinses her mouth after brushing her teeth in ankle-deep floodwaters outside her home along the Dongting Lake waterfront in China's central province of Hunan, August 25, 2002. Water levels in central China's flood-prone Dongting Lake receded 25 August, but authorities warned more rain in the coming days could spell disaster. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTO/AFP/LIU JIN)

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A young boy guides a raft beside flooded buildings on the Dongting Lake waterfront at Yueyang, in China's central Hunan province Sunday Aug. 25, 2002. Storms are expected in the area over the next few days, which could strain dikes on the lake and the rivers which feed into it, threatening six cities and dozens of villages in Hunan province. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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Hundreds of troops build a dike surrounding Dongting Lake in China's central province of Hunan, August 24, 2002. China has mobilized more than a million people, including 15,000 troops and 100,000 militia members, to shore up defences around Dongting Lake and surrounding rivers, and evacuated 600,000 people from the area, according to official figures. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTO/AFP/LIU JIN)

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The small port flooded on the Dongting Lake in China's central province of Hunan, August 24, 2002. Water levels in China's Dongting Lake rose further 24 August, threatening to flood its surrounding area and devastate millions of lives, as soldiers and civilians stood ready to plug breaches in its dykes. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTO/AFP/LIU JIN)

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Two Chinese men recover a motorized tricycle which was stranded by rising flood waters at Yueyang, on the bank of Dongting Lake in China's central Hunan province Thursday, Aug. 22, 2002. A flood emergency has been declared in the area, with hundreds forced to flee their homes as rising flood waters threaten to burst dikes on the lake and inundate surrounding farm land. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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A young boy views a building which was flooded up to its eaves by rising waters at Yueyang, on the bank of Dongting Lake in China's central Hunan province Thursday Aug 22, 2002. A flood emergency has been declared in the area, with hundreds forced to flee their homes as rising flood waters threaten to burst dikes on the lake and inundate surrounding farm land. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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Two men ride a boat back to land from their flooded houses at Chenglingji, on the bank of Dongting Lake in China's central Hunan province Thursday, Aug. 22, 2002. Hundreds of residents around the lake have been forced to flee their homes as rising flood waters threaten to burst dikes on the lake and inundate surrounding farm land. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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A resident stands on a second floor balcony of his apartment building as a boatmen delivers more residents to their flooded houses at Chenglingji, on the bank of Dongting Lake in China's central Hunan province Thursday, Aug. 22, 2002. Hundreds of residents have been forced to flee their homes as rising flood waters threaten to burst dikes on the lake and inundate surrounding farm land. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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Water streams out from sluice gates at a rate of 2,600 cubic meters per second at the Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River, in central China's Henan Province, Tuesday, July 2, 2002. Authorities are conducting a 10-day campaign to flush silt from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in an effort to reduce the risk of flooding. Every year, 400 million tons of silt are deposited on the riverbed, raising the riverbed level and increasing the risk of flooding. (AP Photo/str) ** CHINA OUT, HONG KONG OUT, ONLINE OUT, , NO ARCHIVE **

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BEJ99 - 20020619 - SHANNAN, CHINA : Family members grieve for their loved ones, victims of the floods which hit their village of Shannan in China's northern province of Shaanxi 19 June 2002, the worst-hit area so far which was pounded by heavy downpours causing a confirmed 152 deaths. Rescuers in east China battled to move thousands of people trapped by floodwaters to safety, as renewed heavy rainfall threatened to swell floods that have already killed an estimated 550 people. (CHINA OUT) EPA PHOTO AFP / STR /goh

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CHINA OUT BEJ99 - 20020610 - XIAN, CHINA : A 368-meter (1,230-feet) rail bridge collapsed into the Bahe river, 20 kilometers from Xian in the northern province of Shaanxi, 10 June 2002, one of the areas most severely hit by the rains. At least 46 people have died and 300 are missing after torrential rains battered large areas of China late last week. EPA PHOTO AFPI

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Hundreds of People's Liberation Army soldiers are enlisted to take up the fight against China's life-threatening flood season in Northern China by hauling sandbags up to the banks of the Yellow River, July 7, 1999. Authorities in China, where more than a million people have been driven from their homes by summer floods, moved Wednesday to tackle a corruption scandal which diverted millions of dollars in flood prevention funds into property and the stock market. (KEYSTONE/- PHOTO/AFP PHOTO/XINHUA)

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Motorbikers dawn their ponchos and raise their feet as they travel down a flooded street during a heavy downpour, June 30, 1999 in Shanghai, the time of year when China's flood season starts to make many across the country nervous. Several days of heavy rain across central China left thousands of rescue workers scrambling for the pumps in the city of Wuhan as water levels rose on the Yangtze River. (KEYSTONE/-/AFP PHOTO/LIU Jin)

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An aerial view of the collapsed dyke along the banks of the Nenjiang river in Daqing, China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, on August 18, 1998. The dyke collapsed on early August 16 and floodwaters swarmed a large part of the main Daqing oilfields which produce more than half of China's oil. (KEYSTONE/- PHOTO/AFP/Str)

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Farmers from Maoyuan County, Jianggxi province southeast of China, repair a dike Sunday, Sept.13, 1998 which was damaged by the raging waters following recent floodings in China. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers joined in the repair of the dike. (AP Photo/Wang Donghai, Xinhua)

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Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops pile more sandbags on the dykes in Jianli, in central China's Hubei province 31 August 1998. Authorities are expecting the Yangtze river's eighth flood peak to hit soon, as soldiers and volunteers work frantically along the dykes to shore up defences and plug leaks. (KEYSTONE/- PHOTO/AFP/LORIEN HOLLAND)

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People's Liberation Army soldiers work with shovels on the Songhua River dike in Haerbin, China, Saturday, Aug. 29, 1998. The river was receding having earlier hit record highs. More than 3,000 people have died and millions of Chinese have been left homeless in two months of flooding, officials said. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhao Janwei)

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Fifth grade students carry furniture from their home to a makeshift school in Guihu Village, in Jiayu County, in China's Hubei province Thursday August 27, 1998. Though their school was destroyed by flood waters, their classes are expected to begin as sheduled on September 1. The worst flooding in 44 years has killed more than 3000 people this summer in China. (AP Photo/Xinhua)

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A villager prepares food on a patch of dry land next to her flooded house at Controlling Water Village, near Harbin, in China's Heilongjiang province Friday, August 21, 1998. Chinese authorities announced Wednesday, Aug. 26 that more than 3,000 people have died in this summer's flood season. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/John Leicester)

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Children welcome People's Liberation Army soldiers arriving in Jiayu, Hubei province, China Monday, Aug. 24, 1998 bringing relief supplies to the area. More than 2,000 people have died in flooding nationwide and millions more have been made homeless, according to two-week-old official figures. Government officials were due to release revised tallies Tuesday. (Keystone/AP/Xinhua, Zhan Chunming)

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Chinese soldiers rush to drop sandbags into the Nenjiang river to reinforce a dyke in danger of collapse 23 August 1998 in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province. Chinese authorities are cracking down on criminal gangs and businesses seeking to exploit this summer's flooding disaster. (KEYSTONE/- PHOTO/AFP/XINHUA)

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BEJ06-19980823-HARBIN, CHINA: Chinese soldiers form a human barrier as they try to save a dyke from collapsing along the Nenjiang river in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province 22 August. China's health experts warned of a mass outbreak of a water-borne snail fever or schistosomiasis, a parasite carried by the snails which enters the body through the skin, as raging floodwaters wiped out the third line of dykes protecting the country's most important oilfield. EPA PHOTO/AFP/XINHUA

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PLA soldiers and local residents carry sandbags to reinforce the embankment of the Yangtze river in Yeyang city in China's Hunan province as they prepare for a sixth flood crest Tuesday Aug. 18, 1998. Seasonal rains that began earlier and fell heavier than usual have produced the worst flooding on the Yangtze in 44 years. More than 2,000 people have died nationwide in the flooding and millions have been left homeless. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Xinhua,Liu Weibing )

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PLA soldiers carry sandbags to reinforce the embankment of the Jiujiang as they prepare for a sixth flood crest Tuesday Aug. 18, 1998. Seasonal rains that began earlier and fell heavier than usual have produced severe flooding in northeastern China. More than 2,000 people have died nationwide in the flooding and millions have been made homeless. (AP Photo/Xinhua,Liu Weibing )

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Chinese soldiers wade through the waters of the Nenjiang River, Heilongjiang Province, Monday Aug. 17, 1998, as the rain-swollen rivers breached a dike in northeastern China. The flooded Nenjiang River is the third and last line of defense for the Daqing oil field and the city of 2.3 million people that shares its name. Daqing has 25,000 wells that produced 17.9 billion gallons of oil last year, about a third of the nation s total. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Lan Hongguang)

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Soldiers in a line hand each other sandbags to reinforce the Nenjiang River dike in northeast China's Jilin province Friday, Aug. 14, 1998. More than 2,000 people have been killed and millions have been left homeless in the worst floods in 44 years. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Xinhua, Fan Jiashan)

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A Chinese man looks at trash collecting against the dike where he lives in a temporary shelter near Wuhan, in China's Hubei province Friday, August 14, 1998. Villages were flooded when part of the dike collapsed two weeks earlier. Chinese officials are concerned about the spread of disease through contaminated water, as thousands survive in temporary shacks on dikes after weeks of floods in southern and central China. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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Soldiers carry sand bags 13 August 1998 from boats onto the dyke in Jiujiang which burst last week causing flooding over a large area of the countryside and city. The dyke was sealed yesterday but reinforcement work continues with thousands of troops. China's flooding disaster has spread to the northeast and southwest where torrential rains and dyke bursts have killed dozens and destroyed some 49,000 homes. (KEYSTONE/AFP PHOTO/Robyn BECK)

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Chinese soldiers carry sand bags to a barge on the Yangtze River at Jiujiang, in China's Jiangxi province Wednesday, Aug. 12, 1998. Hundreds of soldiers are working to maintain repairs to a dike which broke Friday, flooding parts of the city. Authorities fear other dikes near the city are in danger of collapse after weeks of record flood waters. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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A villager sits with his pig on a boat while evacuating from his flooded home near the dyke that collapsed in Jiujiang, in central China's Jiangxi province 11 August 1998. Relentless rains have continued swelling the upper reaches of the Yangtze river, shattering any hopes of a break in the catastrophic situation that has affected millions of people. (KEYSTONE/AFP PHOTO/GOH Chai Hin)

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Residents of a village near Dongting Lake in China's central Hubei province walk with their belongings and a leashed pig as they leave their flooded homes, 10 August 1998. (KEYSTONE/- PHOTO/AFP/ZOU QING/goh/fjb-cl)

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View of the west side of Jiujiang 09 August 1998, which is flooded after a dike collapsed in China's Jiangxi province. At least 2,000 people have died so far in the worst flooding to hit the Yangtze basin since 1954. (KEYSTONE/- PHOTO/AFP/GOH CHAI HIN)

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Peng Sanding washes furniture after retrieving it from his flooded house, at Pengzeming village, on the bank of the Xincha River in China's Hunan province Saturday August 8, 1998. Though Peng is able to continue living on the second floor of his house, other houses in the back ground have been completely flooded for six weeks. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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Peng Caoshen rows his boat past flooded houses in Pengzeming, the village which bears his family name, near the bank of the Xincha River, in China's Hunan province Saturday August 8, 1998. Peng, whose house has been under water for six weeks, is one of a number of villagers who spend their days manning dikes in order to protect other houses on dry land behind the dike. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Greg Baker)