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.