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January 11, 2006
Now the Chinese get water pollution news out fast.
The domestic media coverage of the two recent spills suggests that the Songhua River scandal has created pressure on local China governments to stop concealing such potentially dangerous incidents and get the news out quickly.
Two new spills were reported in the past week along the Yellow River in northern China and on a tributary of the Yangtze River in southern China's Hunan Province.
"These things happen all the time, all over the place, probably on a weekly basis," said Elizabeth Economy, the author of "The River Runs Black," a recent book on China's environmental issues.
Local officials responding to the two new spills say neither has forced shutdowns of municipal water systems, as reported by The New York Times and published by the International Herald Tribune.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at January 11, 2006 05:40 PM
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