Network real name: Southeast Online 2005-11-24 10:09:24
On Nov. 23, the public bought water in large quantities. Due to the sufficient supply of drinking water, shopping malls and supermarkets in order.November 13, PetroChina Jihua double benzene plant workshop explosion, according to environmental protection departments predicted that the Songhua River Harbin urban section of the water body may be upstream water pollution in the near future. In order to ensure the safety of water in the city, since November 22, around 20:00, Harbin city municipal water supply network temporarily stop the water supply, water suspension time of about 4 days. The local authorities have issued an emergency notice to control the price of drinking water and water pollution prevention and control emergency plan, the organization of personnel to the city's drinking water sales outlets to supervise and inspect, will be price gouging and taking the opportunity to make and sell counterfeit and other acts to crack down. Xinhua News Agency
Beijing news: the State Environmental Protection Administration of the relevant person in charge of the 23rd to inform the media, by the PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Company explosion, the Songhua River, a major water pollution incident, the people's governments of Jilin and Heilongjiang Province launched an emergency plan for environmental emergencies, and take measures to ensure that the people's drinking water safety.
The person in charge said, after the explosion of PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Company, monitoring found that benzene pollutants into the Songhua River, resulting in water pollution. Benzene pollutants are organic substances that are hazardous to human health. After receiving the report, the State Environmental Protection Administration attaches great importance to immediately send experts to the scene in Heilongjiang to assist the local government to carry out pollution prevention and control work, the implementation of hourly dynamic monitoring, close monitoring of changes in the quality of the Songhua River water environment. (Reporter Wang Jingzhong)
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June 5, 2007 is World Environment Day. And Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, which has been nourished by Taihu Lake for thousands of years, suffered a serious water crisis just a few days ago. The Wuxi basin of Lake Taihu suddenly suffered a massive cyanobacteria outbreak, and the cyanobacteria-contaminated water with a strong fishy odor entered the water treatment plant, and then flowed through the pipeline into thousands of households. Cyanobacteria is like a thick blanket covering the water body. Lake Taihu cyanobacteria early outbreak is a natural disaster or man-made disaster? What is the way out of China's water environment management?
Recently, Wuxi city, part of the tap water users by the "stinky water", the water company explained that, due to the continuous high temperature and high heat, resulting in the Lake Taihu cyanobacteria in a short period of time to accumulate outbreaks of deterioration of water quality, and ultimately the urban area appeared to be a wide range of tap water odor phenomenon. And now Wuxi only major water source - Taihu Lake South spring water plant water source in the night of 28, also by cyanobacteria outbreak damage. After the incident, the Wuxi government explained to the public that it was a "water ecological disaster". The city of Wuxi mobilized almost the entire city in a few days to face the crisis.
Wuxi City, the water crisis relief tap water quality is basically qualified
Taihu Lake cyanobacteria outbreak caused by the Wuxi City drinking water crisis has been alleviated, as of the afternoon of the 3rd, Wuxi City, the basic quality of tap water, cyanobacteria contamination caused by the odor basically cleared. Except for drinking and cooking, which still rely on pure water, other living water has been normal. Since the 2nd, Wuxi City, there is no public queuing to buy pure water phenomenon, pure water market price also remained stable.
Wuxi Taihu Lake sewage incident led to environmental storm 5 officials were punished for dereliction of duty
A few days ago, the morning reporter was confirmed: Wuxi City, under the jurisdiction of the city of Yixing, 5 government officials due to the illegal discharge of illegal enterprises on the "work is not in place," or "supervisory negligence ", were administrative demerits, administrative demerits, administrative dismissal and other sanctions. Wuxi Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau also issued a news release that since May 30, the environmental protection department in the city *** check the sewage situation of 439 enterprises, has ordered 9 over the standard sewage enterprises to rectify the situation, ordered 3 enterprises to limit the discharge, 12 enterprises to make administrative penalties, there is 1 enterprise reported to the municipal government recommended shutdown or relocation.
Guangdong enterprises polluted the Beijiang River water part of the downstream cities to stop the water supply
December 22, 2005 04:07 Yanzhao Metropolis Newspaper
The newspaper comprehensive news Guangdong Provincial Government announced on the 20th, Guangdong North Beijiang River Basin, an enterprise illegally discharged in excess of the standard leading to serious environmental pollution accidents, the Beijiang River downstream of the drinking water in Shaoguan, Qingyuan, Yingde three cities are threatened, some cities tap water supply. The drinking water of Shaoguan, Qingyuan and Yingde cities downstream of the Beijiang River has been threatened, and the supply of tap water in some cities has been stopped. At present, the relevant departments of Guangdong Province is used in the upstream to increase the flow of the way to dilute the pollution, and notify the residents along the river not to drink the river water.
According to the latest news, the Guangdong Provincial Government has issued a notice to Guangzhou and Foshan to activate the drinking water emergency plan, check whether the emergency measures are in place, and effectively protect the safety of drinking water for the people along the river.
Guangdong provincial environmental protection department monitoring found that the Guangdong Beijiang Shaoguan section of the heavy metal cadmium exceeded the phenomenon, 15, in the Beijiang Gaoqiao section, the monitoring department recorded cadmium exceeded the standard nearly 10 times. The Guangdong Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau investigation, preliminary confirmation of this pollution incident is due to the Shaoguan smelter equipment maintenance during the excessive discharge of cadmium-containing wastewater caused by the 18th morning, the Guangdong Provincial Environmental Protection Department ordered Shaoguan smelter to implement the suspension of rectification and closure of the excessive sewage discharge port.
From the morning of the 20th, Shaoguan City, downstream of the Beijiang River, has been a full day of comprehensive water shutdown, until 6 p.m. to restore the tap water supply. Downstream Yingde citizens have been on the streets to buy buckets of water to drink instead of tap water.
At the same time, the Guangdong Provincial Supervision Bureau, the Environmental Protection Bureau jointly formed an investigation team to investigate the responsibility for the accident, and strictly according to the law to investigate the responsibility of the relevant units and personnel.