This can't be good....

[DonRedwood]

The Yangtze River has turned red in Chongqing.

from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/9528500/Red-China-a-section-of-the-Yangtze-River-turns-red-in-Chongqing-China.html

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Industrail Waste,

several stories in last couple weeks regarding the fact, that the river levels have dropped and is unable to handle all of the waste being dumped into it.

[tyne]

2. What would happen

if you don't have an EPA. We should use this in an ad.

[nolabear]

3. Amen!

[Sebass1271]

5. They supposedly have an EPB

[Sebass1271]

4. Oh my goodness!! Why is this happening?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. I last visited China in the late 1990s

and I would awaken in my hotel to see a dark, dirty, hazy sky hovering above Beijing with an acrid smell. There was never any air circulation and I was told that Beijing was in some kind of basin with mountains around it that formed a kind of smog vat. And although the freeways were full of cars, they weren't as prevalent then as they supposedly are today. I feel sorry for the people who have to breathe that stuff. Los Angeles used to be pretty bad, too.

[Control-Z]

7. I remember when LA was like that.

It was so bad you could smell it and feel it when breathing deeply. I've only noticed that acrid smell maybe 3 times since leaving and have been mortified to recall that it was something we were exposed to every day at the time.

It seems to me that it was a new issue when first a problem in LA. We cleaned it up. Now cities, that would have had the information to avoid what happened in LA, seem to just ignore it. Which is what I don't understand. Of course I also don't understand the greed that is the impetus for mountain top removal, fracking, deep water drilling...