Editing Yellow River (section)

==Pollution==
{{see also|Water pollution in China}}
On 25 November 2008, Tania Branigan of ''[[The Guardian]]'' filed a report "China's Mother River: the Yellow River", claiming that [[Water pollution in China|severe pollution]] has made one-third of China's Yellow River unusable even for agricultural or industrial use, due to factory discharges and sewage from fast-expanding cities.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/nov/25/water-china|title= One-third of China's Yellow River 'unfit for drinking or agriculture' Factory waste and sewage from growing cities has severely polluted major waterway, according to Chinese research|author=Branigan, Tania |date=25 November 2008|work=The Guardian |location=UK|access-date=14 March 2009}}</ref> After reaching the first major city, [[Xining]], the river is heavily polluted.<ref>{{Cite news|title=行程3000公里 亲眼目睹黄河水污染现状(组图) |trans-title=Travelling 3000km to document the pollution of the Yellow River in pictures|date=2004-09-16|work= 北京青年报|via=Sina|url=http://finance.sina.com.cn/x/20040916/09041027452.shtml }}</ref> The [[Yellow River Conservancy Commission]] had surveyed more than {{convert|8384|mi|sp=us|abbr=on}} of the river in 2007 and said 33.8% of the river system registered worse than "level five" according to the criteria used by the [[UN Environment Program]].{{dubious|no river on Earth is that long|date=March 2013}} Level five is unfit for drinking, aquaculture, industrial use, or even agriculture. The report said waste and sewage discharged into the system last year totaled 4.29b tons. Industry and manufacturing made up 70% of the discharge into the river with households accounting for 23% and just over 6% coming from other sources.{{which|date=October 2011}}