Taihu, again

So it seems the Taihu crisis isn’t over yet. Some experts are seriously disappointed with the efforts made to clean up the lake.

Update: There’s more: Now a deadline to clean up the lake.

“China has ordered all towns around Taihu, the lake that was covered with a foul-smelling algae last month, to establish sewage treatment plants and insisted that chemical factories meet a new water emission standard by the end of June 2008.“

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A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

2 thoughts on “Taihu, again”

  1. Let’s hope that the measures are actually implemented. The slightly cynical side of me predicts that we’ll be reading about this story a year from now and nothing will’ve changed. Or it will’ve got worse.

  2. Slightly cynical? What the hell is the word ‘slightly’ doing there? But yes, you’re right, I don’t think we’ll be seeing any change a year from now.

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