The River That DID Run Red: Residents Of Chinese City Left Baffled After Yangtze Turns Scarlet
Source: Daily Mail
PUBLISHED: 08:38 EST, 7 September 2012 | UPDATED: 08:39 EST, 7 September 2012
It is the last thing the residents of Chongqing would have expected to see.
But the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday.
The waterway where the Yangtze met the Jialin River provided a fascinating contrast as the red started to filter into the other river.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199800/The-river-DID-run-red-Residents-Chinese-city-left-baffled-Yangtze-turns-scarlet.html
- Ooookayyyyy......
jsr
(7,712 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 7, 2012, 09:07 PM - Edit history (2)
FINALLY.
At least it's a break from green:
Toxic cyanobacteria covers up to 80% of Lake Tai, China's third-largest freshwater lake.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)that's not good.
booley
(3,855 posts)6 more seals to go
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)StarryNite
(9,460 posts)they are procreating.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)God only knows what combination of chemicals have been dumped into the river to cause this. You know if we would just relax some of our environmental regulations like Romney/ Ryan want to do, we could get some of our jobs back from China!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Heck, it could be anything except surprising.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)The river, or the fact that locals are being willfully ignorant as to detecting the source...
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)rucky
(35,211 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts). Plague of blood (דָם : Ex. 7:1425
This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink and thus the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.
Exodus 7:1718
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YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Anybody wanna bet that might have had something to do with it. Looks no different than the Georgia red clay down here in the South.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)loli phabay
(5,580 posts)Marblehead
(1,268 posts)thank god for industrial waste
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)They almost seem impressed...
randome
(34,845 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)Shades of Cleveland, circa 1969.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)GROSS!!! Looks like blood!
cstanleytech
(26,328 posts)SunSeeker
(51,734 posts)In the central coast of CA, there are a lot of old mercury mines, but other types of mines will do it too. About 20 years ago, a creek up there suddenly turned this color. The old mercury mine tailings mix with water to create this highly acidic liquid the color of tomato soup. Old abandoned mines keep making it forever, especially when rains hit, and a lot of times all that's done to capture it is to funnel it from the tailings pile to a huge holding pond. Anyway, in the CA instance, they followed the colored creek up to where the red began, and sure enough it was from an acid mine drainage holding pond--that the mine owner was illegally pumping out.
I'm guessing maybe an earthquake opened up one of those holding ponds in China. If it is acid mine drainage, that idiot holding a bottle of it better put it down. Acid mine drainage burns skin.
magic59
(429 posts)It will be showing up in dollar stores as orange pop.
jsr
(7,712 posts)Chemical factories are famous for poisoning China's water:
The countrys third largest freshwater body, Lake Tai, or Taihu in Chinese, has long provided the people of the lower Yangtze River Delta with both their wealth and their conception of natural beauty.
Since the 1950s, however, Lake Tai has been under assault... Lake Tai made an ideal habitat for Chinas chemical industry, which expanded prolifically in the 1980s. Chemical factories consume and discharge large quantities of water, which the lake provided and absorbed. Its canals made it easy to ship goods to the big industrial port city of Shanghai, downstream.
With strong local government support, the northern arc of Lake Tai became home to 2,800 chemical plants.
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2,800 chemical plants on one side of a lake. Not a typo.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Crepuscular
(1,057 posts)Lot's of different possible causes, none of which are good.
I've traveled in China, the level of pollution is scary, the almost total lack of concern about it is even scarier!
davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)While I'm not religious today, I was raised Roman Catholic. This photo brings to mind the story of Moses. Biblical shit indeed.
Something must be causing this, I hope the source is identified and that they are able to return the water to... well, whatever it was before it turned orange-red.
judesedit
(4,443 posts)probably from companies gone over there to avoid environmental laws, health laws, child labor laws, ethical work week laws, medical insurance, minimum wages, etc, etc, etc owned by U.S. business owners that don't care. I'm sure there must be companies from other countries as well, but I'm damn sure the U.S. cheaters, like Rmoney, are there, stealing their resources and destroying their environments. God save our country from Rmoney. GO OBAMA!!