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China Speeds Up Water Quality Reporting
The China Environmental Law blog, run by Shanghai-based attorney Charlie McElwee, has praise today for a Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection site that updates water quality data every four hours. Great news of course, but as the post notes, the timely water pollution information isn't as immediately important as air quality data. Let's hope this means we can expect more frequently updated air pollution data as well.
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Hmm.. Getting the numbers out quicker and more.. But will they be righter ? Of course, "right" must be "right for the Chinese government".
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Just like how the CCP likes coloring their concrete mountains green to "luhua", they are now dying the water blue. That is why they don't mind showing their water is "clean" now.
Any praise is premature in that it puts the cart before the horse. If anyone believes transparency is the purpose of the government, they haven't studied the CCP. Water quality data sets no targets, imposes no guidelines, makes no law on water quality control. Provincial governments will ignore it. The CCP will likely rig the numbers and say they have improved their environmental policies and forget about controlling water quality altogether.
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From Chinabriefing's comment, I think of a ridiculous scene: Have you ever seen the CCTV's propaganda promo "The Great Landscape(大好河山)"? Almost all the pictures are covered with the color filter in order to gloss over the smoggy sky and the turbid water. That's to say, even though the scenic spots used to be flaunted can not escape from the all-pervasive pollution. Such forgery is too crude to cheat even a kid. Will the CCP "harmonize" the "Time" with such an unskilled craft?
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sing666: You really should go see a doctor:
http://tinyurl.com/lnfvrpBeing tied up on a chair will not fix your problem.
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I have been suggesting that they put blue dye in their gasoline so that the sky can remain blue all the time.
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[...] if more timely emissions numbers would be available soon, though as we noted yesterday, China is already doing that for water [...]
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