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China's Yellow River 10 pct sewage -group
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| 5/11/07
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Posted on 05/11/2007 5:54:19 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; environment; food; foodsupply; pollution; toxins
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posted on
05/11/2007 5:54:20 PM PDT
by
Flavius
To: Flavius
The Yellow River, then, is aptly named......
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posted on
05/11/2007 5:55:47 PM PDT
by
duckbutt
( If you let a smile be your umbrella, then most likely your butt will get soaking wet.)
To: Flavius
China's Yellow River
They're going to have to start calling it the "Brown River".
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posted on
05/11/2007 5:56:15 PM PDT
by
starbase
(Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
To: Flavius
I imagine there is some brown in thet yellow river...
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posted on
05/11/2007 5:56:23 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: mom4kittys; Arizona Carolyn
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posted on
05/11/2007 5:56:26 PM PDT
by
Flavius
("Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
To: Arizona Carolyn; mom4kittys; blam; Salamander; Red Badger; WakeUpAndVote; dirtboy; Overtaxed; ...
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posted on
05/11/2007 5:58:38 PM PDT
by
mom4kittys
(If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
To: Flavius
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.
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posted on
05/11/2007 5:59:31 PM PDT
by
starbase
(Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
To: Flavius
” 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...
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posted on
05/11/2007 6:02:17 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
To: starbase
Communist countries tend to be environmental disasters.
9
posted on
05/11/2007 6:02:32 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLJz3N8ayI">Open Season</a> rocks)
To: Flavius
Don’t eat Yellow River...!
10
posted on
05/11/2007 6:03:23 PM PDT
by
Dacus943
To: starbase
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.
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posted on
05/11/2007 6:03:46 PM PDT
by
rod1
(uake)
To: Dacus943
Maybe Joe Wilson could find some yellow cake there??
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posted on
05/11/2007 6:04:29 PM PDT
by
rod1
(uake)
To: Flavius
Actually the pop band Christie scored a minor hit in 1970 with “Yellow River.”
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posted on
05/11/2007 6:05:26 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 74 days away from outliving Curt Hennig (whoever he is))
To: Flavius
Their environmental policies will contribute to their downfall, much more and sooner, than anything a western power could.
14
posted on
05/11/2007 6:05:39 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: Flavius
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.
To: mom4kittys
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posted on
05/11/2007 6:06:42 PM PDT
by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: Dacus943
The Yellow River.
ummmm....by I. P. Freely.
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posted on
05/11/2007 6:08:50 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Boy, do ya know how it feels to run 3 wide?)
To: LasVegasMac
"ummmm....by I. P. Freely."
I think he wrote it under the alias - Rusty Springs!
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posted on
05/11/2007 6:10:27 PM PDT
by
Dacus943
To: SauronOfMordor
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.
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posted on
05/11/2007 6:11:06 PM PDT
by
starbase
(Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
To: Flavius
Boy is this bubble going to burst.
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posted on
05/11/2007 6:11:21 PM PDT
by
spanalot
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