60% of China underground water polluted: report

[jakeXT]

Sixty percent of underground water in China which is officially monitored is too polluted to drink directly, state media have reported, underlining the country's grave environmental problems.
Water quality measured in 203 cities across the country last year rated "very poor" or "relatively poor" in an annual survey released by the Ministry of Land and Resources, the official Xinhua news agency said late Tuesday.
Water rated "relatively" poor quality cannot be used for drinking without prior treatment, while water of "very" poor quality cannot be used as a source of drinking water, the report said.
The proportion of water not suitable for direct drinking rose from 57.4 percent from 2012, it said.
http://phys.org/news/2014-04-china-underground-polluted.html

[Moliere]

1. So how long before

The right wing seeks to privatize our water and begins exporting it?

[lonestarnot]

2. Any second now.

[Javaman]

3. so 1/5th of the soil is contaminated and now 60% of the groundwater is as well...

yup, china is the "future"!

[Nihil]

4. That's why they're moving out into the rest of the world. (n/t)

[bananas]

5. Cry, the Beloved Country

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country