Process will be time-consuming and expensive: experts The contaminated pits recently found in North China are symptomatic of a larger problem, but the central government is stepping up efforts to curb water pollution across the country although the process is hard and time-consuming, experts said Monday.
China’s environmental authorities moved faster this time than before, with an immediate investigation, quickly arranged treatment plan and timely updates about the situation, according to Li.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) launched a probe with the Hebei provincial government on the pits on Wednesday morning and confirmed that they were polluted by the afternoon.
The two pits were caused by digging years ago and were polluted in 2013 by illegal pouring of sulfuric acid, said the ministry, citing Dacheng government.
It would cost around 200 million yuan ($29 million) to treat the pollution from the 170,000-square-meter pit in Hebei, The Beijing News report said, citing industrial experts.
Water pollution treatment is difficult because the process involves many economic interests, said Bai Ou, a Beijing-based industrial expert.
China’s environmental laws are not comprehensive at the moment, and the central government is expected to put forward more effective rules, according to Bai.
More efforts "It is quite urgent to treat water pollution, but the process is difficult and will take many decades, based on similar experience in other countries like Japan," said Li.
With the development of the Jingjinji area (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region), sewerage treatment is not merely the responsibility of Hebei Province or Tianjin Municipality, and it involves more joint efforts to cover wider areas, Bai said, adding that this effort would have to apply not only in North China, but the whole country.
North China suffers from many forms of pollution, affecting water, soil and air quality due to the large volume of heavily polluting industries in the region, including mining, steel and coal, experts said, noting that the central and local governments are expected to increase efforts to curb the pollution.

High salinity, for example, can cause kidney stones and problems in the urinary tract.
– Safe levels far exceeded – In 2012 and again in 2015, the United Nations listed the threats that could render the enclave uninhabitable by 2020.
Israel says however that it is needed to keep Hamas from obtaining weapons or materials that could be used to produce them.
The level drops and seawater seeps in, raising salinity.
Sami Lubbad, in charge of environmental issues at the Gaza health ministry, says pollution is of two kinds, chemical and microbiological.
Chemical pollution is caused by pesticides but also, say experts, by the toxic remnants of ammunition fired during wars.
“Around two-thirds of Gazans buy their water in the private sector,” often in bottles sold for two shekels (around $0.53) per 16 liters, says June Kunugi, head of UNICEF in the Palestinian territories.
“Many children have parasites and worms and suffer from diarrhea and malnutrition,” said Kunugi.
At the edge of the Mediterranean, desalination of sea water is one potential solution.
In January, the largest desalination plant in Gaza partially opened with the help of international aid.

Water pollution.
• Death of aquatic (water) animals The main problem caused by water pollution is that it kills life that depends on these water bodies.
• Diseases Eventually, humans are affected by this process as well.
• EFFECTS ON DIFFERENT USES Higher amount of dissolved solids may lead to impairment of physiological processes in human body.
Dissolved solids are harmful for industries also because they form scales, cause foaming in boilers, accelerate corrosion and interfere with the colour and taste of many finished products.
It can cost a lot more to purify drinking water that takes its source from nutrient polluted water bodies.
In many cities, your local environment office can help with the disposal of medicines and chemicals.
If you live close to a water body, try to plant lots of trees and flowers around your home, so that when it rains, chemicals from your home does not easily drain into the water.
• In many developed cities, waste or sewage treatment is very efficient, and designed to minimize pollution of water bodies.
• There are also lots of organizations and groups that help educate people on the dangers of water pollution.

Watchdog: EPA spending on water pollution campaign was legal.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) inspector general says the agency didn’t violate the law when it gave an outside group money for a campaign to fight water pollution from farming.
The campaign, by Washington state’s Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, got $15.7 million from the EPA under former President Obama as part of a cooperative agreement.
It was dubbed “What’s Upstream?” and urged people — through billboards, a website and other media — to push for new restrictions on pollution from farmers.
Congressional Republicans, led by Sens.
Jim Inhofe (Okla.) and Pat Roberts (Kansas), sought an inspector general investigation last year, saying the campaign unfairly demonized farmers and ranchers and violated prohibitions placed on the EPA against lobbying.
“Our reviews of the cooperative agreement and associated project files concluded that EPA Region 10 complied with all applicable laws, regulations and policies when executing the award and carrying out its oversight responsibilities,” the report said, referring to the EPA’s regional office in Washington.
The Fisheries Commission similarly “complied with all applicable laws, regulations and policies, as well as all terms and conditions of the cooperative agreement,” the report found.
The findings come months after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that the EPA broke the law in its promotion of its Clean Water Rule.
The GAO accused the EPA of “covert propaganda” for not properly disclosing who was behind some promotions and for violating the ban on lobbying, accusations the agency disagreed with.

Clean-up event held in Hanoi to mark Earth Day.
More than 1,000 volunteers from the US Embassy, associations, organisations and universities, joined hands to pick up garbage in Thong Nhat Park in Hanoi Saturday morning to mark Earth Day here.
Under the theme “Let’s join and act to ensure clean water sources in Viet Nam,” the event aimed to encourage the participation of many groups to manage and prevent water pollution, and clean up heavily polluted water.
Hoang Quoc Lam, a representative from the Environment Administration of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, which was one of the organisers, called on the public to contribute by disseminating information and education on environmental protection, as well learning to adapt to climate change and protect water resources.
Many people are dependent upon Hạ Long Bay, Red River, and the Mekong River for their livelihoods, but the resources there are threatened and need to be protected for future generations, and cleaned up in some cases, said Ted Osius, US Ambassador to Viet Nam.
There is much awareness right now about the environmental dangers to all these extraordinary resources, he said.
“The bottom line message is we have to do all we can to make sure that future generations — the children — will have clean water to drink, safe food to eat and beautiful places to go to, as they grow up,” he told Viet Nam News.
The Earth Day 2017 event in Viet Nam was organised by the Centre for Environmental and Community Research.
This year, the worldwide theme is ’March for Science’, which emphasises the importance of research and scientific discovery, as part of the decision-making process.
Since then, millions of people from 192 countries have joined the event annually to promote public awareness about environmental protection.

DEP Draft Permit Extends PA Coal-Plant Pollution.
The latest draft permit, released Friday, would delay the plant’s deadline to comply with discharge limits on a variety of harmful pollutants for another 4 to 6 years.
The pollutants include nitrates, selenium, arsenic, cadmium, mercury and lead.
"What this means is that Brunner is going to continue to cause significant impacts in the Susquehanna River because of their dirty pollution, and they’re continuing to get a free ride from the DEP," he states.
The draft permit gives Brunner Island the maximum allowable time to meet federal guidelines for water pollution from coal plants.
But Grenter points out that the Brunner Island plant is set up to burn either coal or natural gas, so it could eliminate the coal pollution by making adjustments to the way the plant is operated.
“We’re not asking anything unreasonable, we’re not asking them to do anything that they cannot voluntarily do today."
The permit is not yet final, so Grenter says there’s still time for the public to weigh in, and the Sierra Club will be requesting that the DEP hold a public hearing.
"We’re hoping that DEP, through this draft period where they will be accepting public comments on this draft permit, will end up making the right decision," he states.
Andrea Sears, Public News Service – PA

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South Mumbai gets dirtiest water in the city, finds BMC survey; Mulund, Parel no better.
A report of water samples collected by the BMC from across the city between April 2016 and March 2017 shows south Mumbai gets the most amount of contaminated water at 9%.
It also reveals the BMC still supplies 3.10 % contaminated water — a slight improvement from the past three years.
Water contamination levels in 2015-16, 2014-15 and 2013-14 were 4.6%, 4.5% and 10.84% respectively.
The latest findings of water testing by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) revealed even though contamination levels in the water that surrounds the city have fallen to an all-year low, there continues to exist cases of E. coli contamination in the water.
Of the 36,833 samples collected around the year, 186 samples have tested positive for E.coli.
The bacteria concentration was also high in Mulund with 23 samples out of 1,082 showed presence of E coli followed by Parel with 17 samples out of 1084 tested positive.
The main causes of water contamination are old, corroded and damaged water pipelines especially in the island city, informed officials.
However, the Hydraulic department is confident that it will be able to further reduce the water contamination levels by next year.
“There has been constant improvement in the reduction of water contamination level over years.

Contaminated water supply puts Shopian on brink of disease outbreak.
“We have been provided 24-hour water supply but the water is dirty, mixed with sand and mud.
This water is not fit for drinking,” Muhammad Amin Wagay from Pinjora said.
Tariq Ahmed Pir, a resident of Alyalpora said that the supplied water is so dirty that on occasions, domestic animals also refuse to drink it.
The authorities are not taking the issues seriously.
The drinking water supply feeder near Killora village for 36 villages of Rampathri area is filled with sand and mud up to 11.5 feet.
Authorities say due to the huge mixture of sand and mud with water these filters gets filled with sand and mud within three days and the department has no effective mechanism to clean them regularly.
“The contractors of Mughal Road put all the soil, sand and other material on the banks of rivulet, when snow starts melting and due to heavy rain all the mud flows into the river and contaminates the water,” a group of PHE employees said.
Beig said the issue of contaminated water supply is known to the chief minister.
About 25 water supply schemes get water from Rambiara Rivulet, our filtration plants only have capacity to filter the large dirty particles, he said.

Provincial Taihu Lake Water Pollution Prevention Committee held the eleventh all (expanded) teleconference.
April 21, the provincial Taihu Lake Water Pollution Prevention Committee held the eleventh all (to expand the TV and telephone conference, review and summarize the 2016 provincial Taihu Lake governance work, research and deployment of this year’s key tasks.
Provincial Party Secretary Li Qiang made instructions, Governor Shi Taifeng speech .
Li Qiang pointed out in the instructions that the Taihu Lake is the landmark project of the province’s ecological civilization construction and major livelihood projects.Through years of efforts, the Taihu Lake Basin has achieved positive results for nine consecutive years to achieve the ‘but also to ensure that the water quality is still not Stability, the outbreak of blue algae and the occurrence of lake floods have not yet been eliminated, some localities and departments have also appeared in the idea of relaxation, the tendency to work loose.Currently, Taihu Lake governance is in the crucial point, not into the critical stage, we must insist The goal is not relaxed, thoroughly implement the Party Central Committee and State Council decision-making arrangements, in accordance with the provincial government Taihu Lake governance special meeting deployment requirements, the rule too on the construction of ecological civilization more prominent position, and effectively strengthen the ‘river system’ management, Pollution, water diversion, dredging dredging, cyanobacteria salvage, ecological restoration and other governance measures, perseverance, accurate and effective management of the Taihu Lake at all levels of party committees and governments to fulfill their duties, the main responsible comrades to bear the total responsibility , personally, and levels of goals, step by step compaction responsibility, innovation management mechanism, strict supervision and examination, drive continuous improvement in water quality of Taihu Lake, the ecological environment continued good And improve to get a sense of the people, and make greater contributions to promoting the ‘two gather a high’ practice, with outstanding achievements to greet the big victory party was held nineteen.
Shi Taifeng said in his speech, our province since last year, conscientiously implement the central environmental protection inspectors rectification opinions and the provincial party committee of the deployment, in-depth water pollution control, to achieve a new round of Taihu Lake governance a good start.But also see the current watershed water quality Improve the difficulty of more and more, the ecological environment dilemma to be a breakthrough in the governance too work into the phase of the stalemate, we must conscientiously implement the provincial Taihu Lake comprehensive management of the spirit of the conference, in accordance with the province ‘263’ special action meeting , To talk about politics, the overall situation, closely around the goal of governance this year, with a high degree of vigilance and consciously do a good job of the key work to ‘two to ensure’ as the primary task, from now on do a good job emergency prevention and control work To control the phosphorus nitrogen as the main direction, from the source to further improve the governance is too accurate.To small watershed remediation as an effective carrier, conscientiously implement the new ‘river system’, and effectively reduce the total amount of pollutants into the lake to ecological restoration is important Measures to speed up the construction of ecological protection circle around the lake at all levels and departments should conscientiously perform their duties, establish and improve the policy and measures, comprehensive use of a variety of law enforcement supervision means to promote, and strive to Taihu Lake water quality continuous improvement Scientific development certificate in southern Jiangsu, the actual transformation of the fruits of development.
Vice Governor Zhang Jinghua presided over the meeting, the provincial government secretary-general Wang Qi attended the meeting.There are all members of the provincial Taihu Lake Water Pollution Prevention Committee in the main venue, the five cities in southern Jiangsu comrades in the sub-venue to participate in the meeting.
Before the meeting, members of the provincial government and relevant units of Taihu Lake water pollution control this year signed letters of responsibility.
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