For more than two decades Lake Taihu has been stricken with toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacterium) blooms that have jeopardized the drinking water supply of more than 20 million people.

"There are both freshwater and brackish blooms to be found ... it's north of 400 square miles of algal potential on the lake, and you can see that green from the satellite imagery level." ...

NANJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Taihu, China's third-largest freshwater ... Last summer, the average area of the lake's blue-green algae bloom dropped 15.8 percent year on year, and the average ...