Published on Jan 13, 2014: Lately there’s been a lot of talk about Chinese air pollution; smog so thick, you can barely see the streets of Beijing. But what you might not know is that China is facing a major water crisis. Rivers are drying up and there’s not enough water to go around. And what little water there is has been so polluted by chemical and industrial run off, it’s undrinkable. And if the Three Gorges Dam didn’t cause enough trouble, the next great public work sure will. It’s called The South-North Diversion Project, and will link up the Yellow River with the Yangtze River, hopefully funneling water from the south to the water starved North. All it takes is drilling through the Himalayas.
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Shanghai Tower (650 meters) gives a good perspective on the air pollution (smog).
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+Zy Liu ,,, very true, I seen it happen in California.
Worth repeating: http://fotomen.cn/2011/12/polution/2/
All states in US have followed California, it really works.
I clearly remember, me as a little guy, here in North Carolina.
I felt the pain, I was fined $3500 for a small error I made while burning
some garbage.
well thank god I waited to drink beer tonight. the water in the south is
in large supply but it is all run off from the north and black. nothing
lives in it. when I was in Hainin china I turned on the shower and it
comes out yellow and smells like piss. oh I was naked and standing in the
shower when I turned it on.
as a worst case scenario, mass dehydration, revolution, military rebuff,
tens to hundreds of millions dead.
gao is gonna miss me guys, soon I go to china to bring home my spanking
brand new Chinese wife. she is Cantonese so yes a much better
quality person than his kind, so I will be very busy banging my brains out
and not able to play on youtube much. just be happy my video camera not
on. you might go blind.
Thanks for reminding me to help my country to build it much better. Thank
you so much.
Your so good at doing these vids dude, your both professional and
interesting, never letting things get to dry. Not even this ep xD
I’m going to live in Shanghai in September to study at Fudan university for
a semester, this is quite startling, haha
How bad do things have to get in China before the government finally does
something to reverse all this damage that is being done to the environment?
If things continue like this, I’m afraid it will be too late.
Well, China is obtaining our fresh water from our Great Lakes through the
2006 Great Lakes Compact. There is a loophole in it allowing companies to
take fresh water out of our Great Lakes as long as they are shipped in
containers below a certain size. Since 2006 the water level of the Great
Lakes has dropped significantly and China is one of the countries
benefiting. I guess if they can’t get their fresh water from home, getting
it from their enemy is the next best thing.
Untrue.. not anywhere,, New York City tap water is perfectly drinkable. We
have the best tap water on the planet. Except maybe for Dubai.
How does anybody survive with such unhealthy water? They have already murdered the Chinese river dolphin to be functionally extinct in less then 40 years. How does it support a nation with over a billion people?….and now your telling me its going to effect another nation of over a billion people my spreading the problem????? the dead pig thing put a delicious taste of bile in my mouth, its such a clusterf@#$ it WILL effect the enviorment globally at some point if not already. If you know anything about the world currents and ecosystems etc. everything is in delicate balance…….WE… Read more »
Here is one for you Chris, up here in New York, Michigan and some other states sit up here on the great lakes, we have products that come into the states from china on freighter which they dump their water that they used for ballast which is filled with polluted water and holds all kinds of animals and material that is not native to the United States.. Like the zebra muscles and a fish called the Goby The freighters are asked by the country they are coming from to dump there ballast into our waters and then when they get… Read more »
2:47 This is hyperbole and offensive. I’ve been to China. While the water
conditions in Beijing were atrocious (undrinkable tap water at the Nikko
Hotel, open sewage running in drains throughout the city), I took a shower
and came out smelling fine.
This story definitely has “legs” – to use the journalistic parlance.
Long term, this may be China’s worst problem of them all.
I contracted Shigella Dysentriae & needed to be hospitalized as soon as I
got back from China. No villages or countryside, just big & medium sized
cities all up & down the eastern coast from Behai to HK by train for a
month..& I only washed with it…I did drink soda with local ice in western
owned fast food places..god knows what I ate
In 20-40 years the effe4cts are to going to play major role! If you cant
have water
When the price of a good increases people reevaluate the ways they use it. A gallon of gasoline (equivalent to about four liters) in the US frequently costs about as much as a liter of petrol in Europe, which partly explains why European cars typically get much better gas mileage than US autos. Water pollution and air pollution both are examples of “the tragedy of the commons.” When a good that is held in common (like grazing access to the “commons” in the UK before the 18th Century enclosure movement divided up all the land and changed land tenure law)… Read more »
wonder what crisis China is going to have next? Evil Mutants? *fingers
crossed*
It really smells like an addiction to large projects to keep 1.5 billion
people employed, than anything realistically related to logic. Great video.
sad : (
scary look you did at the beginning!
people are 70% water, china has to many people they say, solution, ccp run
soylent green soda! it’s so simple! Chris just likes to exaggerate every
tiny chinese problem!
Maybe when Chinese will struggle with fulfilling basic needs like clean
water they will finally wake up and do something about their idiotic
government.
Stuff like this is why I don’t think China is likely to become a hyperpower
under CCP rule.
Why don’t they just build solar and wind powered desalinization plants
along the coast and channel that water to areas in need? I know it sounds a
little far-fetched, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
They are dealing with their own problems head on and will succeed some
where down the line. What have our government been doing since Moon shots?
Fuck, I’m going to be possibly staying with relatives for a month. Guess I
can go for a month without brushing my teeth
They should invent fake water.
wonder how much cloudseeding you need to fill up a lake?
I wouldn’t swim in that pool of 1000 people, someone may have pee’d in that
pool or worse made a Baby Ruth…
Problem solved! Obama is selling fresh water from the Great Lakes to China.
He’s such a nice guy.
WATER IN CHINA.
I very much agree with the core statement: No matter how big the oppression
is, a government that cannot deliver drinkable water, edible food and
non-poisonous air to breath is facing a serious problem, for these are the
basic needs of every individual. If China fails to adress this challenge,
this will cause the fall of the CCP. Sooner or later.
What’s funny is that China has access to one of the largest freshwater
sources in the world: The Himalayas. Despite this, the commie government
still managed to make water shortage a major problem because of poor
regulation
Look up “Life Straw” Its a tube that filters the filthiest water instantly.
They cost around ten dollars and are given free to African children to
drink from mud holes.
They are probably made in china and could be made available to the public
there.
But like you said the Chinese government looks for mega solutions that
cause more problems and overlook the simple answers.
China’s drinking water is done! bug good old water incorp day. 322
Another indignity suffered upon the people of China..And for what? More garbage to fill Walmart’s shelves? More money in the pockets of the rich and the corrupt? Why did they not see the damage done in other countries by un-regulated industry? When no thought is given to the environment? It’s a simple equation…You don’t shit where you eat!…and when all the potable water is gone…when they cannot grow crops..or even run industry to churn out more patio furniture and DVD players then where will the people go? The ☭ CCP ☭ is gonna look silly when everyone is dead..or has… Read more »