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Fresh Water for Shanghai

The fast-growing city has polluted waterways and a growing demand for clean tap water.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published April 11, 2017
Data acquired 1984 - 2016

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI