Sewage discharged from rubber glove factory in Guodong Administrative Village, Jiayi Town. (Photo source: Old ghost Ding Jinhua microblog)
As the northwest China’s “spring of Life“, the Yellow River has been plagued by pollution, water shortages, hanging three “problems”. One of them, pollution and the coastal factory enterprises will be a large number of waste water discharge into the Yellow River. Recently, a rubber glove factory in Yichuan County, Shaanxi, was exposed to the sewage discharged into the river through a dark channel, and eventually into the Yellow River.
Micro-blog account “old ghost Ding Jinhua” March 5 posted that, Jiyi town Guo Dong administrative village Qu Li villagers group long board slope under the rubber glove factory there is a large cesspool, pool below the road inside a four-sided dry pit, the pit is equipped with a 20 cm diameter plastic pipe, leading directly to the cliff side of a square tunnel mouth of one meter in diameter; sewage was discharged into here The sewage is discharged into here, through the ravine forest underground drip post, white grass river bank, straight into the Monkey River, and then east into the Yellow River.
The article said that the mouth of the Monkey River into the Yellow River is only 7.5 kilometers, just in the afternoon of March 4, the plant also had sewage.
“Old ghost Ding Jinhua” also quoted the person in charge of the administrative village of Guodong as saying that on February 6, he saw the rubber glove factory discharging during the day, and the milky white foam floated for several kilometers until the river froze in Zao Shuling village; on February 17, the factory completely resumed production and discharged at 2:00 p.m. every day, and the person in charge of the village branch and village committee went to negotiate several times, but was scolded. And back; February 28, the plant will be brown-black sewage directly into the river, directly into the Yellow River.
According to the villagers downstream, the original Monkey River more crabs, grass carp, shrimp, to rubber glove factory to here, the river no longer these good things. Medical authorities say that this type of water pollution can not drink the water, the chance of cancer is very high, the latent period of 10 to 15 years.
Guo Dong administrative village also said that often see rabbits, pheasants drink the water in the pool died, the village repeatedly to the local government to reflect the matter, has not been the following, sewage as usual; Zao Shu Ling, Qu Li, Qun Ying, Liu Wan head of the village said they can often see the river water turned into milk color.
After the news aroused concern, the official media Huashang Daily’s “two or three miles client” reported on March 7 that the Yichuan Branch of the Yan’an Ecological and Environmental Bureau confirmed the existence of the factory’s discharge and opened a case, and the factory was asked to rectify the situation on site.
Industrial pollution has been the “bane” of the Yellow River water pollution. From Qinghai, through Gansu, Ningxia, to Inner Mongolia, the Yellow River, energy, heavy chemicals, non-ferrous metals, paper and other highly polluting industrial enterprises stand.
In the context of local governments bent on raising GDP as a political achievement, these enterprises, factories will be the Yellow River as a “convenient” sewage channels, unwilling to invest in environmental protection funds to deal with wastewater waste. The local authorities turn a blind eye to this and give the green light. The Yellow River Basin Water Resources Protection Bureau organized a group of experts as early as 2004 has released a set of figures that the total amount of waste water discharged to the Yellow River along the Yellow River each year reached 4.4 billion cubic meters, nearly 40% of the Yellow River main stream water quality for the poor five categories of water, the basic loss of water body function, the Yellow River Basin annual economic losses caused by pollution up to 11.5 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) to 15.6 billion yuan.
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