More than 60 pct of China's underground water rated unfit for human contact

[n2doc]

Source: Reuters/Trust

BEIJING, June 4 (Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of China's underground water, and a third of its surface water, were rated as unsuitable for direct human contact in 2014, the environment ministry said on Thursday.

China is waging a "war on pollution" to reverse some of the environmental damage done by more than three decades of breakneck growth, but one of its biggest and costliest challenges is tackling contaminated water supplies.

China classifies its water supplies into six grades, and just 3.4 percent of the 968 surface water sites monitored by the Ministry of Environmental Protection met the highest standard of "Grade I" last year.

In an annual environmental bulletin, the ministry said just 63.1 percent of the monitored sites were ranked in "Grade III" or above, so rendering them fit for human use.

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[djean111]

1. Good news! Looks like they want to join the TPP! Then - they can bottle that water and sell it to

the US, and not have to label it for country of origin because that would affect profits!

[valerief]

2. Now, you've got it! That's the plan. And the more people that water kills

before retirement age, the more moola for the WAR Machine.

[Hoppy]

5. Where have you been? They already have "Most Favored Nation" trade status.

They can sell their bottled water to us, label it "Best for healthy bodies" and kill more people and pets than their shit already has.

[djean111]

8. Oh noes!!! You mean the TPP is not gonna save us from China???? Are people LYING to us?

Yes, they are lying to us.

[KamaAina]

3. Pollution! Pollution! Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!

Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air! </tom-lehrer>

[jwirr]

4. That is really bad. Consumption is one thing contact means that it is not fit for anyone or anything

[hibbing]

7. so true

I had to open this just to be sure it was about no human contact, that has to be some nasty stuff. But at least we can get all our cheap electronics made somewhere, right?

Peace

[jwirr]

10. Oh, yes we need all those gadgets.

[project_bluebook]

6. China is busy buying its way out of the problem

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-11-05/china-buys-japan-water-rights-after-two-decade-land-prices-slump
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2015-03/07/content_19743180.htm

Much of the Great Lakes water is headed for China, filled in massive cargo bags which are pulled across the ocean by a large supertanker.
http://www.newsfocus.org/water_grab.htm


With the huge trade deficits China is flush with foreign currency so they can own the resources of their economic slaves.

[snooper2]

11. The are putting water in bags and pulling it across the ocean with tankers?

wait-


okay-

[Sunlei]

9. and 100% of 'aboveground' water as it flows into the sea

[Gregorian]

12. It has nothing to do with population. But just wait and see what happens with 8 billion.

This population issue is going to make everything from food to politics very difficult. Less clean water, more wars. And no one but a few are even talking about it.

Even the NY Times is bullshitting us as seen in a piece they wrote a few days ago. Everything's fine!

Greenwashing isn't going to help the problem. No amount of Priuses will put more fish in the sea.

[bahrbearian]

13. Coming to a (Fracked) Neighborhood near you.

[n2doc]

14. Ah! But the EPA says that fracking doesn't contaminate groundwaters 'widely'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112786438

I sure feel safer now...