China’s Pollution Initiatives
There have been several BBC online reports this week about polluters in China.
The first was official concern about the pollution impact of the Beijing Olympics.
The next day a report about a river running red due to pollution.
And today an announcement of a plan to log industrial pollution sources.
Water supplies to about 200,000 people in central China have been contaminated by pollution, which has turned branches of a major river system red.
I’m sure that’s just a tiny tip of a melting iceberg in that populous nation. According to Peter von Stackelberg of the research and consulting firm Social Technologies:
“By 2025, about 3.4 billion people will live in regions that are defined by the UN as water-scarce.”
