One-third of China's Yellow River polluted

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — Newly released scientific results show one-third of the famed Yellow River, which supplies water to millions of people in northern China, is heavily polluted by industrial waste and unsafe for any use.

The Yellow River, the second-longest in China, has seen its water quality deteriorate rapidly in the last few years, as discharge from factories increases and water levels drop because of diversion for booming cities.

The river supplies a region chronically short of water but rich in industry.

The Yellow River Conservancy Committee said 33.8 percent of the river's water sampled registered worse than level 5, meaning it's unfit for drinking, aquaculture, industrial use and even agriculture, according to criteria used by the United Nations Environmental Program.



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What? You mean there's a downside to China's "economic miracle"?!?!?

[WriteDown]

1. China sure is "doing it right."

:sarcasm:

[DainBramaged]

2. Really?? I didn't know that?

:sarcasm:

But Dain, you are a China basher, they make great cheap stuff for America, you shouldn't worry about what they do to their own country while we have a nice supply of cheap stuff, hopefully lead free!

[PearliePoo2]

8. Looking at those pics you posted....(WTF is that anyway?)

It makes it more important than ever to check "Country Of Origin" when you buy seafood!
Or, on second thought...when buying anything at all.

[LiberalFighter]

3. They should move all their manufacturing and other businesses

to the foothills of the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province. Then they can pollute 100% of the river.

[Javaman]

4. but hey, 2/3's aren't! LOL it's just a matter of just drinking 1/3 less of that glass of water!!

:rofl:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. Now we know why its called the Yellow River

[JVS]

6. China's Sorrow. That river has been a damned hassle for a long time. Always flooding and...

changing course!

[PearliePoo2]

7. They are poisoning themselves to oblivion.

The toxic crap from their factories is now showing up in the ice on the Cascade mountains.
My brother was in China recently and his young well-educated interpreter (after a few drinks),
asked him if he had ever seen the stars at night from his home in Washington State.
She had never seen an unpolluted sky.
He just stared at her in disbelief.
The air was so thick, brown and skanky the entire time he was there, his traveling companion had to check into a hospital for respiratory ailments upon his return.

:puke:

[sarcasmo]

9. I just ate some Dole Sliced Peaches that usually have the made in Greece stamp on them.

I closed the lid and realized they now have the made in China stamp, I almost threw them out, we shall see if I get sick.

[1776Forever]

10. I read a prediction on this too from 2005 - This is a very menacing issue to contend with.

Scientists warn global warming may trigger water crisis in Yellow River
2005/04/12

http://ro.china-embassy.org/rom/kjwh/t191131.htm

The temperature of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the second longest river in China, is clearly relevant with the world-wide warming trend, according to a study conducted by CAS researchers and their colleagues from administration of hydrology and water resources of the Upper Reaches of the Yellow River. Due to the possible temperature hike and drastic decline in local precipitation, the runoff in the reaches may face a trend of continued decrease over the next decade, they warn.

(snip)

The study forecasts the possible changes of runoff over the Yellow River Basin under global warming scenarios, notes Prof. Lan Yongchao, lead author of the article and an expert in forecast models of long and mid-term river runoffs and water resources from the CAS Cold and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering Research Institute.

(snip)

The experts suggest that, in consideration of the further demands posed by the regional growth in the socio-economic development in coming years and the uncertainty in the local precipitation in the upper reaches, the overall hydrological situation will be menacingly grim. Thoroughly to do away with the issues by uprooting them, it is advisable to make the waterworks operational in the western part of the national program to shift water from the water-rich south to the arid north in an early date.

[Xenotime]

11. This is just more RW spin because they dont' like CHina