The River Defiled
Record amount of sewage dumped into China's Yangtze River
Posted at 10:09 AM on 14 Nov 2007
Last year, China's state media deemed the Yangtze River "cancerous" with pollution; to stick with the analogy, it appears the cancer has spread, as a record amount of sewage was dumped into the river in 2006. That's 30.5 beeeeeellion tons of (mostly untreated) industrial and human waste, an increase of 3.1 percent over the year before.sources: Xinhua, Agence France-Presse
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