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The Chinese government should probably check the drinking water as well then... "it is acknowledged that nearly 14 percent of the city's sewage is discharged i

The Chinese government should probably check the drinking water as well then... "it is acknowledged that nearly 14 percent of the city's sewage is discharged into rivers which serve as Shanghai's water sources without being treated." https://www.healthandsafetyinshanghai.com/shanghai-water.html https://www.healthandsafetyinshanghai.com/shanghai-water.htm... "At least a million tonnes of raw sewage pours into the waters of Guangdong’s Pearl River Delta in southern China every day...Air pollution is so obvious that everyone can see it,” he said. “But the water problem has not had enough public attention.” https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2087815/southern-chinas-million-tonne-raw-sewage-problem https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/20...

fyfy18 8y ago
London has a pretty big problem with raw sewage flowing into the Thames too, fortunately it’s not used as drinking water source though. Each year at least 40m litres of untreated sewage flows into the Thames in London, as the Victoria sewers are at capacity. There is currently an ongoing project to upgrade them which should be launched in 2022: http://www.tideway.london/ http://www.tideway.london/ Last year a water company was fined £20m for dumping 2 billion litres over the last few years further upstream: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/thames-water-hit-with-record-fine-for-huge-sewage-leaks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/thames-w...
- vkou 8y ago
  > fortunately it’s not used as drinking water source though. If it were, I imagine the incentives to fix this problems would align differently then "Let's maybe get it fixed by 2022." The same could be said for Victoria, BC, which treats the ocean like a giant garbage dump, where it dumps its untreated sewage.
icebraining 8y ago
"The breakfast garbage that you throw into the Bay / They drink at lunch in San José." Seems like Tom Lehrer's Pollution is still relevant - just other countries.

fyfy18 8y ago

London has a pretty big problem with raw sewage flowing into the Thames too, fortunately it’s not used as drinking water source though. Each year at least 40m litres of untreated sewage flows into the Thames in London, as the Victoria sewers are at capacity. There is currently an ongoing project to upgrade them which should be launched in 2022: http://www.tideway.london/ http://www.tideway.london/ Last year a water company was fined £20m for dumping 2 billion litres over the last few years further upstream: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/thames-water-hit-with-record-fine-for-huge-sewage-leaks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/thames-w...

vkou 8y ago
> fortunately it’s not used as drinking water source though. If it were, I imagine the incentives to fix this problems would align differently then "Let's maybe get it fixed by 2022." The same could be said for Victoria, BC, which treats the ocean like a giant garbage dump, where it dumps its untreated sewage.

icebraining 8y ago

"The breakfast garbage that you throw into the Bay / They drink at lunch in San José." Seems like Tom Lehrer's Pollution is still relevant - just other countries.