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Originally Posted by vaj3k
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We generally don't refer to our country, consisting of 50 states, as "the US State"
This is terrible, but this is almost 40 years, right? I know everyone dumped in the great lakes and rivers back then too. Surprising that any of the fish survived.
You are not
trying to single out the US in your threads, right?
& you can't wait for China to take over the world, (believe you said that recently).
They dump toxic waste into bodies of water
today.
From the WSJ:
Factories and cities dump some 40 to 60 billion tons of wastewater and sewage into lakes and rivers each year, according to Chinese government estimates. About 30% of China's
rivers are so dirty they aren't fit for industrial or agricultural use, according to official statistics. Some 300 million Chinese -- roughly the size of the entire U.S. population -- don't have access to clean drinking water. The polluted water is becoming an international issue as it flows into Russia and other parts of Asia.
http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=1742