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Fears were mounting Monday for the safety of more than a million people downstream from a "quake lake" in China as waters threatening to burst a dam of landslide rubble were rising faster than engineers could drain them.

Authorities are concerned the Jianjiang River will top the dam unless efforts to dig and blast out emergency draining channels can drastically decrease the water level.

But engineers also risk letting out too much water at one time, which could also trigger a collapse of the dam created by a 7.9 magnitude quake that devastated China's Sichuan province. Read full article »

All About China • Sichuan Province