China Admits Rapid Development Threatens Environment

China's chemical plants threaten its famous rivers which flow through major population centers.

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January 26, 2006, 12:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"...a sobering acknowledgment by the Beijing government that rapid industrial development has outstripped the nation's ability to regulate environmental hazards...More than half of the [the nation's 21,000 riverside chemical plants] sit on the banks of China's most famous waterways, the Yellow and the Yangtze, which flow for thousands of miles and pass through population centers that depend on them for drinking water. Both are vital to crop irrigation as well...[China's environment chief] acknowledged that the problems were tied to the country's fast-paced development, which has put economics ahead of the environment."

Read the full story: China Finds Chemical Plants Pose Widespread Risk to Rivers

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 in The Los Angeles Times

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