China will self destruct eventually. They thought it was a great thing when we opened up trade with them and sent big buisness over there. they're going to find out what this country did in the 60's and 70's if you don't regulate these companies they will destroy the water,air and soil, with no thought for the people living there.
Pollution turned part of a major river system in central China red and foamy, forcing authorities to cut water supplies to as many as 200,000 people, the provincial government and a state news agency said Wednesday.
Some communities along tributaries of the Han River "” a branch of the Yangtze "” in Hubei province were using emergency water supplies, while at least 60,000 people were relying on bottled water and limited underground sources, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Residents in some towns were getting water from fire trucks, the Hubei provincial government said on its Web site.
Five schools were closed in Xingou township, while others could not provide food to students, the Xinhua report said without elaborating.
The pollution was discovered Sunday when water plant workers from Jianli County found that the Dongjing River, a tributary of the Han, had turned red and foamy, the Hubei Web site said.
Water plants along the river suspended intake and cut tap water to as many as 120,000 people, according to reports on the site. Xinhua said 200,000 people were without water.
Tests showed the polluted waters contained elevated levels of ammonia, nitrogen, and permanganate, a chemical used in metal cleaning, tanning and bleaching, Xinhua said. The pollution apparently flowed down from the Han River, the Hubei government said without elaborating on its source.
Water from nearby Lake Chang was being diverted to dilute the pollution.
Most of China's canals, rivers and lakes are severely tainted by industrial, agricultural and household pollution. Chinese leaders say the country faces a critical water shortage, partly due to chronic pollution and chemical accidents.
In one of China's worst cases of river pollution, potentially cancer-causing chemicals, including benzene, spilled into the Songhua River in November 2005. The northeastern city of Harbin was forced to sever water supplies to 3.8 million people for five days. The accident also strained relations with Russia, into which the poisoned waters flowed.
A paper mill dumped waste water directly into the Han in September 2006, forcing authorities to cut water supplies for a week in some areas, the Xinhua and government reports said. They did not say how many people were affected.
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RE: The world is worried about the USA polluting??
Their infrastructure has been in bad shape for a long time. They will either buy up lots of land in other countries or just take it over. Ive been following this for a while. They will have millions of dollars but no fresh water to drink.
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RE: The world is worried about the USA polluting??
Change is happening over there. They will go through some rough times ahead. However, they are changing bit by bit.
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RE: The world is worried about the USA polluting??
I think China may be in big trouble. If we see a global recession, they're screwed. They simply grew too fast for such an undeveloped country. Their land is in terrible shape; their rivers even worse. The central government isjust not very good at management, particularly in long-term development and risk mitigation. They'll never be able to afford to treat the millions of people who will get sick and die from various environmental disasters. They're living on a communist prayer at this point.
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"They're living on a communist prayer at this point."
Indeed they are. It is a matter of time before China experiences a devastating famine. They have not had one inmany decades because their economy was based on agriculture: Now there has been a switch to industry.The peasants are abandoning the farms for the city slums.
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I think China may be in big trouble. If we see a global recession, they're screwed. They simply grew too fast for such an undeveloped country. Their land is in terrible shape; their rivers even worse. The central government isjust not very good at management, particularly in long-term development and risk mitigation. They'll never be able to afford to treat the millions of people who will get sick and die from various environmental disasters. They're living on a communist prayer at this point.
Can they eat the fish they catch, or the game they "harvest"?
RE: The world is worried about the USA polluting??
I wholeheartedly agree.....and I have to say, holy crap, I think this is some of the most agreement I've seen here in a while.
But seriouisly, China is in trouble, they grew too fast, without building up their basis and infastructure and they're going to be in for a hard fall in the future. Having the government they do right now could either be good or really bad for the people of china....however either way it's going to be bad for the communist regimine/party. Since they don't have to deal with the political processes of a democracy, the Communist leadership is in a good position to make tough choices that in the short term would hurt the growth and anger the people of the country, but would probably avert a really hard crash in the long term. This angering of the people would probably wind up in the communist party losing a lot of their control. The second scenario would be that the Communist party places more importance on keeping people happy in the short term, keeping this unsustainable growth going, and ending up with a hard crash and devestation of their economy. At which point in time the Communist party would probably lose their power. My view is that it seems the rest of the world is just sitting back to see how the Communist party decides they want to go, but it seems that the steps they're taking right now is not enough to stop their unsustainable grown and all of the problems that go with it.
The world is worried about the USA polluting??
