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.“
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.
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.