{"id":171381,"date":"2014-04-13T17:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T00:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=171381"},"modified":"2014-04-13T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T00:15:29","slug":"rush-bottled-water-benzene-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/04\/rush-bottled-water-benzene-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush For Bottled Water After Benzene Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that <strong><a title=\" Chinese rush for bottled drinks after benzene pollutes tapwater\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/04\/11\/us-china-pollution-idUSBREA3A0J120140411\">people in Lanzhou have rushed to buy bottled water after authorities discovered elevated levels of benzene, a cancer-inducing chemical, in tap water<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The water supply was turned off in one district, and officials warned citizens not to drink tapwater for the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lanzhou has shut down the contaminated water supply pipe and deployed activated carbon to absorb the benzene,&#8221; local authorities said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The water supply company, Lanzhou Veolia Water Co, is majority-owned by the city government, with Veolia China, a unit of French firm Veolia Environnement, holding a 45-percent stake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initial investigation showed the high levels of benzene were caused by industrial contamination at one of the two culverts that transfer raw water from a sedimentation plant to the water treatment plant,&#8221; Veolia said in a statement. [<strong><a title=\" Chinese rush for bottled drinks after benzene pollutes tapwater\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/04\/11\/us-china-pollution-idUSBREA3A0J120140411\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Weibo user quoted in the report adds that other liquids like beer and milk had been &#8220;snatched up&#8221; as well. \u00a0 At China Dialogue, <strong><a title=\"China\u2019s water pollution will be more difficult to fix than its dirty air\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/blog\/6726-China-s-water-pollution-will-be-more-difficult-to-fix-than-its-dirty-air-\/en\">Luna Lin explains that China&#8217;s water pollution problem is &#8220;just as urgent&#8221; as the more oft-discussed problem of air pollution<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe situation of China\u2019s water environment is still very grim,\u201d the deputy minister said, quoting the figures of China\u2019s annual volume of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and ammonia nitrogen emissions, common indicators of water quality. The current annual volumes of the two is 24 million tonnes and 2.45 million tonnes respectively, Zhai said.<\/p>\n<p>According to China Business News, China will have to reduce its annual volumes of COD and ammonia nitrogen emissions by 30-50% before there\u2019s any significant improvement of its water.<\/p>\n<p>Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public &amp; Environmental Affairs, a Beijing-based green NGO, told chinadialogue that China\u2019s waste water discharge has far exceeded the nation\u2019s environmental bearing capacity and hence the incoming action plan is \u201cvery necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTackling water pollution is as serious and worthy a challenge for the authority as combating air pollution&#8230;water pollution poses a bigger health threat to about 300 million people living in rural areas, and many of them are vulnerable and disadvantaged,\u201d Ma Jun said. [<strong><a title=\"China\u2019s water pollution will be more difficult to fix than its dirty air\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/blog\/6726-China-s-water-pollution-will-be-more-difficult-to-fix-than-its-dirty-air-\/en\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about <a title=\"Water pollution\" href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/water-pollution\/\">water pollution in China via CDT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that people in Lanzhou have rushed to buy bottled water after authorities discovered elevated levels of benzene, a cancer-inducing chemical, in tap water: The water supply was turned off in one district, and officials warned citizens not to drink tapwater for the next 24 hours. &#8220;Lanzhou has shut down the contaminated water supply 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