Industrial Chemical Waste Water in the Yellow River in China

Industrial chemical waste water seeps through the sand onside of the mid- and upper-reaches of the Yellow River, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. This is a commonly employed practice of “waste water treatment.

Unique identifier: GP0STORJX

Type: Image

Shoot date: 03/04/2014

Locations: Asia, China, Inner Mongolia

Credit line: © Lu Guang / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Coal Projects Threaten the Yellow River in China

Documentation of damage to the Yellow River, caused by the rampant expansion of coal industrial projects. The Yellow River is one of the longest and most important, fragile and iconic waterways in China. Greenpeace investigations have revealed an open-pit coal mine undermining the embankment of the Yellow River in Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia China. Massive cluster of coal processing plants are operated at dozens of industrial parks spanning hundreds of miles along the Yellow River. All these projects are highly energy, water and carbon intensive, and discharge huge amounts of waste water and flue gas.
Greenpeace calls for an immediate halt of operations at this and other coal industrial projects that threaten the Yellow River, and urges the Chinese authorities to speed up the upgrade to a more reasonable energy mix with more ambitious boosts to the renewable energy sector.

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