{"id":5886,"date":"2006-01-11T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/01\/11\/china-water-supplies-a-continuing-threat-jim-yardley\/"},"modified":"2006-01-11T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T16:52:11","slug":"china-water-supplies-a-continuing-threat-jim-yardley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/01\/china-water-supplies-a-continuing-threat-jim-yardley\/","title":{"rendered":"China water supplies: A continuing threat &#8211; Jim Yardley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/11\/news\/pollute.php\" target=\"_blank\">From the New York Times<\/a>, via the International Herald Tribune:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTwo recent chemical spills have forced officials in different regions of China to take emergency precautions to protect water supplies for millions of people &#8211; the latest examples of the environmental and public health threats posed by industrial pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The new spills were reported in the past week along the Yellow River in northern China and on a tributary of the Yangtze River in southern China&#8217;s Hunan Province&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The domestic media coverage of the two recent spills suggests that the Songhua scandal has created pressure on local governments to stop concealing such potentially dangerous incidents. But some experts also believe that the flurry of news coverage is merely revealing how common such accidents have become.<br \/>\n\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/01\/11\/news\/pollute.php\" target=\"_blank\">More on this topic<\/a>, via Google News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune: Two recent chemical spills have forced officials in different regions of China to take emergency precautions to protect water supplies for millions of people &#8211; the latest examples of the environmental and public health threats posed by industrial pollution. 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