Poisoned development

Poisoned development
http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/695119/Poisoned-development.aspx

"The 3.7 million residents of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, kicked off the Year of the Dragon with a panic-stricken scramble for clean drinking water.

A warning went out that the city might have to cut drinking water supplies after more than 20 tons of industrial waste contaminated with the heavy metal cadmium had spilled into the Longjiang River some 60 kilometers upstream.

Water samples in the worst-hit areas showed levels of cadmium 80 times higher than national standards. Local fish farmers, where the spill by two companies occurred, had their stocks virtually wiped out and hundreds of villagers had to have their drinking water trucked in."