China's Yellow River 10 pct sewage -group

reutuers ^ | 5/11/07 | reutuers

[Flavius]

BEIJING, May 11 (Reuters) - Untreated sewage from factory discharges and urban centres now accounts for 10 percent of the Yellow River's flow, a prominent Chinese non-governmental group said.

[duckbutt]

The Yellow River, then, is aptly named......

[starbase]

China's Yellow River

They're going to have to start calling it the "Brown River".

[Smokin' Joe]

I imagine there is some brown in thet yellow river...

[Flavius]

[mom4kittys]

[starbase]

The 5,464-km (3,395-mile) river supplies water to more than 150 million people and irrigates 15 percent of the country's farmland, but has lost a third of its fish species and is 70 percent unfit for drinking or swimming, state media have reported.

Nasty, nasty.

[HereInTheHeartland]

” 10 percent of the Yellow River’s flow, a prominent Chinese non-governmental group said.”

But we get to buy widgets for a bit less here...

[SauronOfMordor]

Communist countries tend to be environmental disasters.

[Dacus943]

Don’t eat Yellow River...!

[rod1]

Why isn’t ALGORE over there hawking some carbon credits???

Talk about polluting one’s country to the point of mortality and disease...oh wait its called needed population control I guess.

[rod1]

Maybe Joe Wilson could find some yellow cake there??

[SamAdams76]

Actually the pop band Christie scored a minor hit in 1970 with “Yellow River.”

[stuartcr]

Their environmental policies will contribute to their downfall, much more and sooner, than anything a western power could.

[plain talk]

Liberals want us to believe that the Chinese will spend untold resources to slow down CO2 expulsion when they can’t even stop pouring sewage into their drinking water.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Bump...

[LasVegasMac]

The Yellow River.

ummmm....by I. P. Freely.

[Dacus943]

"ummmm....by I. P. Freely."

I think he wrote it under the alias - Rusty Springs!

[starbase]

Communist countries tend to be environmental disasters.

That's true. I suppose the complete elimination of public opinion as a controlling factor causes industry to go haywire (from a perspective of proportion and responsibility).

Another tid bit from the article:

Twenty million tonnes of industrial sewage were discharged into the river every year at Baiyin, a metallurgical industrial base in China's northwestern Gansu province...

"Many of our children have no hair and bad teeth," the paper quoted Wang Mingzhi, a Baiyin resident, as saying.

"Heavy metals in the water are very harmful to people's health," Wang said.

[spanalot]

Boy is this bubble going to burst.

[Cymbaline]

But, but, but, I thought it was the U.S. that’s the world’s biggest polluter! At least that’s what the left tells us.

[PeterPrinciple]

Why isn’t ALGORE over there hawking some carbon credits???

They don’t have any guilty feeling white people............

[libs_kma]

"Why isn’t ALGORE over there hawking some carbon credits???

They don’t have any guilty feeling white people............"

We have enough to export. Maybe we can work out a deal on our trade imbalance. Wonder what they'd pay for a slightly used Kennedy?

[Bibman]

Al Gore, take a back seat!

This sounds like a job for,
Sheryl Crow!

[telebob]

"Actually the pop band Christie scored a minor hit in 1970 with “Yellow River.”

And who could ever forget the Fugs 1965 hit 'River of Sh*t'.

I forget which US river they were signing about...

[libs_kma]

"Many of our children have no hair and bad teeth," the paper quoted Wang Mingzhi, a Baiyin resident, as saying.

"Heavy metals in the water are very harmful to people's health," Wang said."

A couple million early deaths doesn't mean a thing to the Chinese. It's not like they'll be sued or anything.

Maybe they need some lawyers. John Edwards will be free after the first couple primaries.

[blam]

[The Duke]

Where’s Al Gore when ya need him?

[JACKRUSSELL]

......The 5,464-km (3,395-mile) river supplies water to more than 150 million people and irrigates 15 percent of the country's farmland, but has lost a third of its fish species and is 70 percent unfit for drinking or swimming.

......"Many of our children have no hair and bad teeth," the paper quoted Wang Mingzhi, a Baiyin resident, as saying.

If this isn't enough to make Americans stop buying Chinese food and products, I don't know what is.

[Flavius]

they will buy it

if the labels is product of USA

if a company is co owned by an American Company, with CEO’s office statesite

and industrial waste site or fish farm in chicom land

they are buying we are buying and will continue so because nothing stops it

[sweetiepiezer]

thanks for the ping.

[abigailsmybaby]

Nah. Rusty Springs is aka I.P. Nightly.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Woo. What is all that muck doing to nearby Japan?

[Arizona Carolyn]

I suspect that is what this whole thing is about — getting around FDA and OSHA and all the regulations here that won’t allow them to just dump. Wasn’t it General Mills that horribly polluted around one of their plants years ago?

[headstamp]

Thought it was I.P. Daley. (grin)

[ken21]

after we eat more chicom soup,

we’ll all be environmentalists!

[Flavius]

well thats pretty much a given

i was getting ready to work on getting of the energy grid

now apparently have to become a farmer

should be interesting for the city dwellers, or should i say my new customers