The Dirty Secret of Lake Tai: Tai Hu by Wu Lihong
Geschreven op 18-7-2010 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Natuur
China’s third largest freshwater body of water, Lake Tai, is at once placid and majestic, until it reveals its dirty secret.
Lake Tai, or Tai Hu in Chinese, was once considered an ecological treasure in the heart of eastern China’s land of fish and rice cultivation in Jiangsu province.
Today, the lake is lined with green algae, dead fish and industrial waste, unmistakable consequences of more than 20 years of heavy factory production along its perimeter.
It is a story of environmental disintegration that Wu Lihong, an environmental activist recently freed from prison, has been trying to tell for decades.
Source: CNN
