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278 Cities Suffer Untreated Sewage
China Daily ^ | August 30, 2007 | By Xin Dingding

Posted on 08/31/2007 8:42:04 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL

More than half of the population is living in an environment where sewage is not treated, an expert said.

By the end of 2005, 278 cities across the country had no sewage treatment facilities, including eight with a population of more than 500,000, Zhao Baojiang, chairman of the China association of city planning, told a recent conference on sustainable sanitation held in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

About 5,000 administrative towns and 20,000 market towns also had no sewage treatment facilities, he was quoted as saying by www.xinhuanet.com.

Water pollution is deteriorating, but orders of the State Environmental Protection Administration to reduce the pollution are being disregarded in some cities, Zhao said.

Zhengzhou-based Henan Business Daily reported yesterday that five cities in Henan Province have still to shut down heavily polluting companies.

The five cities are Kaifeng, Xinxiang, Zhumadian, Xinyuan and Jiyuan.

The province's deputy governor Zhang Dawei is reported to be furious about the five cities' malfeasance.

He criticized the cities at a conference focusing on water pollution.

He said what polluting companies were doing was tantamount to "killing people directly".

According to his report, nearly 30 percent of Henan's rivers "smell and are muddy". Chemical and pharmacy companies are believed to be the major polluters.

To improve the situation, the provincial environmental protection bureau has asked local governments not to approve new projects along polluted rivers in the province.

The bureau planned to close 150 heavily polluting companies by the end of this year.

So far, 32 companies have been closed. The rest, including thermal power plants and cement factories, are still operating.

About 61 county-level sewage treatment plants out of the total 89 plants have problems that affect operations, including incompatible pipeline networks and seriously damaged facilities.

In order to reduce water pollution, the provincial government has asked all 18 cities to take measures and ensure at least half of its surface water meets the required standard before the year-end.

"If any city fails to fulfill the environmental goal, its mayor must make an apology in front of all the people," Zhang said.

Members of the city's government leadership will not get promotion either, he said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china

1 posted on 08/31/2007 8:42:05 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
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To: JACKRUSSELL
Got news for you...its a lot more than 278 cities. Perhaps, 278 fairly large cities. But there are thousands of towns and cities across China that have open sewers that are not treated.

The articel itself makes this clear.

About 5,000 administrative towns and 20,000 market towns also had no sewage treatment facilities

But this is not new. Most of the world lives this way. The United States inparticular, but also Canada, Australia and Western Europe are blessed to have the sanittion they do.

2 posted on 08/31/2007 8:47:23 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Liberty is not Free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: JACKRUSSELL

I thought that communism was supposed to take care of these things … workers paradise and all. There should not even be a dog turd in the streets in a workers paradise.

Failed system. And yet Hitlery et al, want to push this on us.


3 posted on 08/31/2007 8:53:51 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: JACKRUSSELL
"More than half of the population is living in an environment where sewage is not treated"

They're Marxist/Socialists. They'll get a pass from our home-grown Marxist/Socialists. In fact our couragous congress critters and the Drive-Bys will find a way to blame Bush.

4 posted on 08/31/2007 8:58:42 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: YHAOS

Lets see. Because of free market trade to China, we encourage them to build massive polluting factories and kill their people.

And of course, Bush pushed the free trade.

/sarcasm


5 posted on 08/31/2007 9:19:55 PM PDT by Crazieman (The Democratic Party: Culture of Treason)
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To: Crazieman
China is the perfect Marxist/Socialist state and a worker’s paradise. It would never bring harm to Mother Earth or to its people. Everyone knows China couldn’t possibly be so greedy or careless as to permit a slip in the quality control of products and the pollution of the atmosphere and the ground water. Therefore, some free market, capitalist evil must have insinuated itself, unnoticed, into the otherwise pure and perfect socialist market system of the Worker’s Paradise.

Bush is the prime Democrat enemy du jour.

Ergo . . .

6 posted on 09/01/2007 11:53:32 AM PDT by YHAOS
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