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April 17, 2008
More Water Pollution in China: Now it is Lake Taihu
An area of algae, 100 yards wide has been found in China's third largest lake, Lake Taihu (pictured), which supplies fresh water to 30 million people.
The country's Ministry of Environmental Protection, making this report today, noting that this algae pollution is similar to the one in Lake Tahiu in May, which made tap water undrinkable for 1 million people for about 10 days in bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
"Even under very strictly controlled conditions, this phenomenon will last three to five years, or even longer," said Jin Xiangcan, director of the Research Institute of Water Environmental Science at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences. He added the quality of water in the lake is level five, the worst quality, meaning the water is useful only for agriculture.
The governor of Jiangsu said in Beijing last month that the lake's pollution would be eliminated in 10 years, according to the Xinhua News Agency, and environmental protection would be a top priority while achieving industrial growth in the future, as reported by the Associated Press, and published by the International Herald Tribune.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at April 17, 2008 11:19 AM
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