China's longest river "cancerous" with pollution – Yahoo! News
BEIJING (Reuters) – China's longest river is "cancerous" with pollution and rapidly dying, threatening drinking water supplies in 186 cities along its banks, state media said on Tuesday.Chinese environmental experts fear worsening pollution could kill the Yangtze river within five years, Xinhua news agency said, calling for an urgent clean-up.
"Many officials think the pollution is nothing for the Yangtze," Xinhua quoted Yuan Aiguo, a professor with the China University of Geosciences, as saying.
"But the pollution is actually very serious," it added, warning that experts considered it "cancerous.""
Industrial waste and sewage, agricultural pollution and shipping discharges were to blame for the river's declining health, experts said.
Very interesting that such pollution is coming from such an open and honest country. When will the USA step in and force China to clean up its act?
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