WalMart residuals.
I always panic when my wife threatens to cut off my water too.
The rivers in China are awful. For 1.25 billion people, water is the most vital necessity. The great Yellow River dries up 1,000 miles from the coast now. Huge engineering projects to pipe water from the north are staggering in their cost and complexity. The Three Georges dam is a sad necessity, but will probably silt up in 20 years, which was why the USA refused to assist with it. Now the Chinese are going to dam the Mekong river which will affect all of Southeast Asia.
If all of our enviro-whackos really cared about mother earth, they'd be moving to China to protest and to help. The USA, with our huge forests and farming acreage, is a net cleanser of the air, not a net polluter. China has ravaged almost all of her forest land and is reaping the consequences in silted rivers, loss of farmland, and destruction of habitat.
Quick somebody call Mayor Nagin, he'll know how to handle this. /sarcasm
China hasn't done much with Russian Harbin. Russia should retake the territory.
I have been to Harbin. I understand Mao used to send people there to get their attitudes re-adjusted;.It is one of the dirtiest cities I have ever visited. Raw sewage is flowing directly into the river where the local populace is fishing and swimming. The air is so polluted, you can cut it with a knife. I am surprised they even told the people of the impending disaster. How would they know?
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