In other news: China: Safe water promised for Olympics

[SoCalDem]

Safe water promised for Olympics
By Xie Chuanjiao (China Daily)

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2008/2007-05/10/content_869647.htm

Athletes and visitors to the Beijing Olympics' central area will be able to access safe drinking water straight from the tap, instead of having to rely on bottled supplies, Bi Xiaogang, the vice-director of the Beijing Water Authority, has promised.

"Facilities to provide safe drinking water within a 2.91- sq-km area, encompassing the Bird's Nest and the Olympic Green,:wtf: will be completed in the first half of next year," Bi said at a press conference yesterday.

In addition, the department is working to renovate and upgrade its 2,000-plus water supply facilities across the city to provide safe tap water for all Beijing residents. "There is nothing wrong with the water coming out of the plants," Bi said. :eyes:


"It is the distance it has to travel through old pipes to get to people's homes that affects the quality." Bi said that in recent years, progress had been made to clean up rivers and lakes in the city so that the Games' organizers can ensure "an ecological water environment for a green, hi-tech and people's Olympics".

Within the sixth ring road there are 52 rivers with a total length of 520 km. "By the end of the year all 52 rivers will have been cleaned, so that we can say our rivers have crystal clear water, green banks and can even be used for sailing," Bi said.

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This city has vowed to improve water quality still further this year.

[gatorboy]

1. Drinkable water!

How sweet of them.

[Junkdrawer]

2. China seems to be imitating a pre-EPA American industrial growth model...

Not if, but when they grow a working middle class with that model, the world will keel over with pollution overload.

[NV Whino]

3. Oh geez

That they would even have to address that issue....

[SoCalDem]

5. and only for a 2.91 sq km area.. Will athletes & guests be issued pedometers

so they know when they have reached the 2.92 mark?

[Solly Mack]

4. athletes to import their own food

just saying