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Keywords
Agriculture
Chemical industry
Chemicals
Crops
Day
Dumping
Factories
Farmers
Fields
High angle view
Irrigation
Kingboard Chemical Holdings Ltd.
KWCI (GPI)
One person
Outdoors
Pollution
Reflections
River pollution
Rivers
Toxics (campaign title)
Victims
Water
Water pollution
Women
Farmer in Pearl River Delta Region
Ms. Ho, age 45, has lived in the Huang Wen Yuan Cun village for 19 years and remembers fish in abundance and clean water for irrigation from the local stream. Now she describes the river as black acrid smelling water. The village is located directly adjacent to the Kingboard Industrial park. Resident farmers are concerned about the pollution found in the nearby streams discharging from the factory. The vegetables produced from this village are considered toxic by the local consumers and therefore the farmers have a hard time selling their produce.
Unique identifier:
GP01VT0
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
01/09/2009
Locations:
Asia
,
China
,
Guangdong
,
Qingyuan
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / John Novis
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
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Pearl River Delta Pollution
The Pearl River Delta has become one of the leading economic regions and a major manufacturing centre of China. Greenpeace collected and analysed 25 samples of waste water discharges and sediments from five industrial sites located throughout the Pearl River Delta region. A diverse range of hazardous chemicals were found, including high levels of heavy metals such as beryllium, copper and manganese.
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