Desalinization for China´s water woes?

Flow chart of multi-stage flash distillation in order to produce desalinated water (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Desalinization for China’s water woes? by Staff Writers Beijing (UPI) May 6, 2013

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China lacks government support for desalination programs needed for the country’s water security, an industry expert said.

“The lack of an effective pricing mechanism for desalinated water and support for an operable policy is affecting the development of the country’s sea desalination industry,” Li Linmei, director of the State Oceanic Administration‘s Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization in Tianjin was quoted as saying by China Daily.

Li noted that reverse osmosis technology necessary for desalination has been mastered.

“The seawater desalination industry is as important as water conservancy projects for China to cope with its water shortage,” Li said.

China experiences water shortages of almost 54 cubic meters on average each year, with more than 66 percent of cities suffering from water shortages, says the China Daily report. Amid the shortfalls, China’s water consumption is expected to increase to about 700 billion cubic meters in 2030, up from current usage of 600 billion cubic meters.

China has 16 desalination plants with a daily capacity of more than 10,000 metric tons of fresh water.

But that water is relatively acidic and mostly used for industrial purposes, Ruan Guoling, a researcher at the Tianjin Seawater Desalination and Comprehensive Utilization Institute under the State Oceanic Administration told Caixlin in February. Further treatment is needed before it can be used by residents.

As part of its 2011-15 plan, the Chinese government aims to produce 2.2 million cubic meters of seawater-converted freshwater a day by 2015, compared with 660,000 cubic meters in 2011, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported. That would require an investment of about $3.35 billion, experts say.

Separately, China food safety authorities announced Friday that new, unified national standards on bottled drinking water were in the works.

That follows a report in the Beijing News Thursday that China still follows regulations adopted from the Soviet Union more than 20 years ago to test bottled drinking water.

While tap water is subject to 106 national standards, bottled water only has to meet 20, the report says, but officials said the difference shouldn’t be a concern because local authorities also set standards.

“When the World Health Organization updated its detection methods, [we] updated the standard for tap water but not for bottled water,” the newspaper quoted an unnamed expert with the Institute for Environmental Health and Related Product Safety in Beijing, as saying.

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Chinese authorities seize 20,000 tonnes of illegal meat products and detains gang passing off fox, mink and rat as mutton

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Chinese authorities seize 20,000 tonnes of illegal meat products and detains gang passing off fox, mink and rat as mutton

• Jonathan Kaiman in Beijing
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 May 2013

China’s other food safety scares include reports of glow-in-the-dark pork, exploding watermelons and fake eggs. Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP

Police in China have arrested 904 people for “meat-related offences” over the past three months, including a gang that made more than £1m by passing off fox, mink and rat meat as mutton, the country’s public security ministry has announced.

Since January, authorities have seized 20,000 tonnes of illegal products and solved 382 cases of meat-related crime – primarily the sale of toxic, diseased and counterfeit meat.

One suspect, named Wei, earned more than £1m over the past four years by purchasing fox, mink and rat meat, treating it with gelatin, carmine (a colour produced from ground beetles) and nitrate, then selling it as mutton at farmers’ markets in Jiangsu province and Shanghai. Authorities raided Wei’s organisation in February, arresting 63 suspects and seizing 10 tonnes of meat and additives.

Suspects in the Baotou city produced fake beef and lamb jerky from duck meat and sold it to markets in 15 provinces. Levels of E coli in the counterfeit product “seriously exceeded standards”, the ministry said.

A baby treated for kidney stones after drinking tainted milk powder, in Chengdu, China. Photograph: China Photos/Getty

Hao, another suspect, from Fengxiang city, Shaanxi province, last year sold mutton that had turned black and reeked of agricultural chemicals to a barbecue restaurant, killing one customer and poisoning a handful of others.

In Fujian province, five suspects were arrested and two factories shut for butchering disease-ridden pig carcasses and selling their meat in nearby provinces. The suspects had been hired by the agriculture ministry to collect the carcasses from farmers and dispose of them properly.

Authorities closed two factories in the south-western province of Guizhou for soaking chicken feet in hydrogen peroxide before shipping them to markets. And in Zhenjiang city, Jiangsu province, two people were arrested for selling pork products that were made with meat from “poor quality pig heads”.

China’s meat markets are already reeling from a spring riddled with food safety scares. Pork sales plummeted in March after about 16,000 pig carcasses were dredged from a river in Shanghai, an incident authorities have yet to fully explain. A virulent strain of avian flu has killed 26 people and put more than 129 in hospital since mid-April, wreaking havoc on the domestic poultry industry.

New guidelines calling for harsher penalties for those found guilty of producing or selling unsafe food products were announced by the country’s top court on Friday.

The supreme people’s court said the guidelines would list as crimes acts such as the sale of food excessively treated with chemicals or made from animals that have died from disease or unknown causes.

A gang made more than £1m by passing off mink and rat meat as mutton. Photograph: PA

China’s food safety authorities are turning their attention to dairy products, according to the Xinhua state news agency. In 2008, more than 54,000 infants became ill and six were killed after being fed milk and baby formula that was tainted with the industrial chemical melamine.

Other food safety scandals in recent years include reports of glow-in-the-dark pork, exploding watermelons, cadmium-laced rice, fake eggs, salmonella-tainted seafood, carcinogenic recycled cooking oil and pesticide-soaked fruit.

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Video: AnimalEquality Exposes the Horrors of the Dog Meat Trade Please sign the Petition

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Guangzhou Jinrong Livestock Wholesale Market

On my first day investigating the dog meat industry in China, we visited the Guangzhou Jinrong Livestock Wholesale Market, where animals, who would later end up as meat on someone’s plate, were being sold to the highest bidder.

I observed sections of dogs, goats, pigs and donkeys on this market. When I arrived, people were unloading pigs from trucks – the same trucks we had previously seen on the highway. The pigs were packed in tightly in barred metal cages. The bottom level of pigs could barely stand up and the animals’ backs were rubbing on the second level. Some were reduced to kneeling down on the hard floor. The animals appeared exhausted and their demeanor was weary. They had dark shadows around bloodshot eyes. The animals appeared exhausted and their demeanor was weary. The people on the market carried out their work apparently oblivious to the suffering of animals there. And oblivious to the injuries, fear and screams.

To unload the pigs from the trucks, the workers used iron bars to hit the animals. I observed many animals being hit directly in and between their eyes. The workers didn’t seem to care, and sometimes laughed at the animals’ screams and falls as they struggled to remove themselves from the bars.

At the other end of the yard was the gated dog area. In front of the dog area there were piles of iron cages – apparently typical of cages used to transport these animals. I was unable to take many pictures in this area as the guard stopped me. When I reached out to the dogs with my hands, they were surprisingly curious and stretched to reach me. These animals can be the best friends of humans, which makes this trade even more confusing. Yet these individuals had become no more than victims of the meat industry.

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In view of the shocking investigation into slaughterhouses and dog meat markets, carried out by the animal rights organisation Animal Equality, I’ve been able to see first-hand the terrible physical and psychological torture these animals are subjected to.

More than 10 millions dogs and 4 million cats are murdered each year for their meat and fur in China. The cruelty of this practice is completely unjustifiable.

There are millions of us around the world who consider that the massacre of dogs and cats for human consumption or for their fur is unacceptable and I therefore urge China’s government to prohibit and eradicate this cruel trade.

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Here at Animal Equality we’ve undertaken an intensive investigation into slaughterhouses and the dog meat markets in the Leizhou peninsula and the rest of the province of Guangdong in China.

Dogs raised for the meat markets are often taken from the street or stolen from families. These animals are kept almost their entire lives confined in wire cages where they suffer terribly both physically and psychologically. Whilst in the cramped cages, they are scared. They suffer from hunger, extreme temperatures, and a lack of food and water.

Their deaths are horrific: various blows to the head leave the animals in a semi-conscious state before being stabbed to death. The dogs are bled out and die after agonising minutes whilst struggling in a desperate bid to stay alive.

At Animal Equality we have commenced a campaign to end the consumption of dog meat and its production in China.  Just like you, millions of people, in China and beyond, believe that cat and dog slaughter for human consumption is absolutely unacceptable.  This is why we are urging the Chinese government to prohibit this cruel trade immediately.

Help us stop the massacre!

By signing our petition you are letting the Chinese Government know that you are against the consumption of dog and cat meat, aswell as the use of their fur.  It is vital to add your signature to the thousands of people who have already joined this campaign to ensure that this practice becomes history, once and for all.

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APROPOS: zimbabwe´s export of baby elephants to zoos in China…

Devi (little princess), a 30-year-old Asian elephant raised in captivity at the San Diego Zoo exhibiting “rocking behavior” (animation), a rhythmic and repetitive swaying which is unreported in free ranging wild elephants. Thought to be symptomatic of stress disorders, and probably made worse by a barren environment, rocking behavior may be a precursor to aggressive behavior in captive elephants. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Your Letters Helped Save Zimbabwe Elephants From Chinese Zoos!

Last week we asked you to contact officials of Zimbabwe to stop the export of baby elephants to zoos in China. Give yourselves a pat on the back, because your letters worked! On January 21, the Washington Post reported that five baby elephants who were to be shipped to Chinese zoos have been returned to the wild. According to the report, “state parks and wildlife officials agreed on their release … and the capture of wild animals for zoos or similar habitats, irrespective of location, is expected to be stopped.”

This marks the second time your letters helped stop the transfer of Zimbabwe’s wildlife. In 2010, you convinced Zimbabwe to halt the sale of elephants, giraffes, zebras, and other wildlife to a zoo in North Korea.

While IDA is glad these five elephants will be spared from a life of misery in Chinese zoos, there are reports that at least two other baby elephants are still being held for export, and dozens more could be snatched from the wild to fulfill international “orders” for wild elephants. So it’s unknown whether Zimbabwe, and other countries in Africa, are sincere about ending the capture and export of wild animals for zoos. Stay tuned for updates.

In other news, the city of Topeka has agreed to pay a $45,000 civil penalty to settle a USDA complaint filed against the Topeka Zoo. The complaint included 51 charges including the deaths of numerous animals and failure to provide adequate veterinary care for Tembo and Sunda, the zoo’s two elephants.

To put baby-elephants from their mothers, from their families is such a cruel act! Elephants are very social animals – like us! I cannot understand how they can do this to take babies from their fountain: the family!

They destroy cords of hearts, love and they sew hate & sorror there!

Annamaria

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Inside China’s Bamboo Rat Farms

 

Mong La, Shan State, Myanmar Illicit Endangered Wildlife Restaurants Bamboo Rat (Photo credit: Soggydan)

Inside China‘s Bamboo Rat farms By Matt Blake PUBLISHED: 11:03 EST, 19 December 2012 | UPDATED: 14:31 EST, 19 December 2012 When Shi Beidan spotted a rat the size of a small dog scuttling across her kitchen floor, the last thing she wanted to do was call in the exterminators. Instead she caught the rodent, gave it a lunch of bamboo and put it in a box to breed more. She now has more than 2,000 giant bamboo rats at her home in Congjiang, in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, all of which she is fattening up to sell at market.   Fat rat: Shi Beidan holds up one of her specimens to the camera. She has spent months fattening it up by feeding it bamboo They are a popular delicacy in some parts of china and are eaten in a variety of dishes, but the biggest ones can also be skinned and turned into fur coats. It is a scheme that is sweeping across the region, with cash-strapped farmers turning to breeding the rats as a new source of income. And it is becoming big business.     Just a baby… for now: Big business: Cash-strapped farmers are breeding the rats as a new source of income. A pair of well-kept breed bamboo rats can sell for between 600 and 900 Chinese yuan (£60 and £90) Congjiang county already has 18 bamboo rat farms, and it is planning to expand that number to 20 in 2013.   Bamboo rats are a species of rodent that are found in the eastern half of Asia and can grow up to 50 centimetres in length and four kilograms in weight. A pair of well-kept breed bamboo rats can sell for between 600 and 900 Chinese yuan (£60 and £90). They reproduce rapidly with three to four litters of two to five offspring a year. Rat meat costs over four times more than chicken or pork and twice that of beef in China. Eating rat is even said to prevent baldness and is considered a winter dish.

China: Crash saved Life of Cats transported for Food …

English: Xu – a common Chinese surname. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

walking street in changsha (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I posted Jan. 18 : Don´t close Your eyes … about Cats as Food in China … aha!

Slaughter After Rescued From Truck Crash

January 19, 2013

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RT News, January, 17, 2013

 

Cats being cared for after truck crash

Up to 600 plump white cats escaped death when the truck carrying them to be slaughtered crashed and they were rescued by animal rights activists in central China.

Volunteers hauled the cats from the overturned lorry in the central city of Changsha. Around one hundred felines, however, died in the accident while others escaped, says Xu Chenxin of the Changsha Small Animal Protection Association.

The cats, most of them plump and white, were heading to restaurants in the southern Guandong province, the China Daily reported.

“It was easy to tell they were meant to be eaten, from looking at the crates you could tell their owners didn’t care if they were alive or dead. When I arrived, the truck was piled high with more than 50 crates. The cats had travelled for days, without water or food, and the smell was dreadful” Xu told AFP on Monday.

The volunteer group which recued the felines negotiated with one of the trucks drivers to buy the animals for 10,000 yuan ($1,600) and they were now awaiting adoption.

“We’ve already had inquiries from families across Changsha,” said Xu.

Activists often come to the rescue of animals in China. In one of the biggest occasions they bought around 500 dogs intended for the dining table from a convoy of trucks on a highway in Beijing in 2011.

China does not have laws to protect non-endangered animals such as cats and dogs. Although cats are not commonly served up as dinner in Chinese restaurants, some establishments, especially in the south, will put cat on the menu.

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Zimbabwe: KEEP WILD ELEPHANTS OUT OF CHINESE ZOOS

Keep Wild Elephants Out Of Chinese Zoos

Zimbabwe officials could soon decide whether to ship up to six more baby elephants to zoos in China. One of four sent to Chinese zoos in November has already died due to the stress of capture, transport, and the brutal conditions at a zoo. Reports say additional elephants are being held for export. All were taken from the wild and face a grim future if sent to China. Please send an email today to the Zimbabwe Minister of Environment and the Director of National Parks. Ask them to halt any future export of elephants and instead work with conservation organizations to rehabilitate the calves back into the wild.

Send your email to: Mr. Francis Nhema, Minister of Environment, Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources: environment@gta.gov.zw; and Mr. Edson Chidziya, Acting Director of National Parks, Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority: echidziya@zimparks.co.zw.

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Casus: Left-Behind-Children in China

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/23/china-deaths-homeless-children read whole article here, please
• Tania Branigan in Beijing
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 23 November 2012 13.20 GMT

The bin in Guizhou province, south-western China, where the bodies of the five boys were discovered. Photograph: HAP/Quirky China News/Rex Features

The man who revealed the deaths of five homeless children in a bin this week, sparking soul-searching across China, has been taken away by officials, his supporters have said.

The boys, who were found dead in the south-western province of Guizhou, were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, apparently after lighting charcoal in an attempt to stay warm overnight.

News of the deaths spread when Li Yuanlong, a former journalist in Bijie city, posted details on an online bulletin board. But, according to sources, soon after the revelations the authorities forced Li to take a “vacation”, a method often used to deal with activists and dissidents.

The Bijie propaganda office denied the allegation, pointing to a note posted from Li’s bulletin board account that said he had not been taken away and was simply attending to urgent business.

But his son Li Muzi, who is studying in the United States, told the South China Morning Post his father had been put on a plane to a tourist destination he did not want disclosed. “Apparently they are trying to prevent him from helping other reporters follow up on the incident,” Li Muzi added.

He said his father had asked him to delete a microblog post about the disappearance in case it meant he was kept away for longer.

“The [local] government is quite cruel in dealing with this issue,” said Li Fangping, a Beijing-based lawyer and friend of the family.

The Chinese Human Rights Defenders network said Li, 52, had previously served a two-year sentence for inciting subversion of state power and been put under pressure for writing about sensitive subjects.

The authorities were quick to dismiss or suspend eight officials in the poor, mountainous region, but have been criticised for failing to address the underlying causes of the deaths and the delay in finding the boys, who Chinese media said had been reported missing 10 days before their deaths. Bijie officials denied police had been told of their disappearance.

Li Fangping added: “They just want the public to stop paying attention to the issue; they want to use this result [the sackings] to distract the public’s attention – they are not concerned with the causes, the effect and its consequences; they are not analysing this incident; not asking why officials were responsible; not asking what the problems in the system and the emergency response mechanism were. [They] did not mention how to prevent it happening again.

“The officials did not mention at all why it is so common for students to drop out in this district or why there are no NGOs getting involved.”

Others blamed the children‘s families or warned that society as a whole needed to learn lessons from the tragedy. A commentator for the English language Shanghai Daily newspaper said the sacked staff had been made scapegoats “for pervasive social apathy”.

The children, aged nine to 13, were cousins. Four were supposed to be under the care of an ageing, blind grandmother because their fathers were working as scrap collectors in Shenzhen, hundreds of miles away. All five had skipped school repeatedly.

Tao Yuanwu, father of two of the victims, said the children refused to return to classes, saying they were getting poor grades and disliked studying.

Studies have shown that children left behind by migrant worker parents are more likely to suffer educational and behavioural problems. But parents say they have little choice owing to long working hours and the hukou, or household registration system, which restricts the rights of migrant families to services such as education in cities.

“Unfortunately, this is certainly not an isolated case. It is very common for kids to be in the care of elderly grandparents who don’t have the resources to give them the care they need, materially and in terms of upbringing and education,” said Geoff Crothall, of China Labour Bulletin.

A commentator for Caixin magazine pointed out there were 58 million left-behind children in China, warning that without further action “the tragedy in Bijie is bound to happen again”.

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We care for animals! And there are children, left-behind-children, in trash-bin

 

5 “Left-Behind” Boys Found Dead in Trash Bin in China

• by Kristina Chew
• November 27, 2012
• 7:00 am

 

• On the morning of November 16, an elderly scavenger made a terrible discovery in a trash bin in the city of Bijie, in China’s remote Guizhou province. He found the bodies of five boys, aged nine to thirteen and all brothers or cousins; they had apparently died from carbon monoxide poisoning from burning charcoal to keep warm.

The boys’ deaths highlight the phenomenon of “left-behind children” in China. As Raymond Li writes in the South China Morning Post, the five boys were all the children of “busy farmers or migrant workers who had left for other cities.” All were from Caqiangyan village, a poor community abandoned by most of its adults in search of work.

Four of the boys had dropped out of school due to “poor performance.” Only one boy’s father, Tao Jinyou, had informed district and township authorities that his son had been missing for three weeks; he said that officials had not responded to his requests for help.

Journalist Sent On “Vacation” After Reporting Boys’ Deaths

Local authorities were equally slow to confirm the tragic story, only doing so after several days of outrage about it on the Internet. Li Yuanlong, a former reporter for a Bijie daily, had broken the story of the five boys’ death and posted photos of their bodies soon after they were found. The following Wednesday, he was sent on a “vacation” by local authorities who put him on a plane to an unknown “tourist” destination. Li had already served two years in jail for writing too many “negative” stories.

China’s “Left-Behind Children”

The five boys’ death has triggered “soul-searching” in the mainland Chinese media about who is to blame and what social factors may have caused the tragedy, says Li. He notes that the boys’ case is in some way “typical” of China’s estimated 58 million “left-behind children,” the “byproducts of broken families, the country’s uneven economic boom and demanding examination-centric school system.”

Li cites a recent report from a Beijing-based group, the 21st Century Education Research Institute, that suggests that, in China’s educational system, those children who do not perform according to stringent standards simply give up:

The Beijing-based civic organisation found that dropout rates among rural primary pupils had by 2008 risen nearly 6 per cent higher than they were even in the late 1990s, a period notorious for mass dropouts at rural schools. It blamed a reckless closure of rural schools.

The number of rural schools has fallen 52 per cent in the past decade under a plan to improve education quality. The situation was even worse for small village-level schools, of which 60 per cent were closed during that same period.

Indeed, it is likely that rural dropout rates are even higher, as many children leave villages with their parents who are seeking work in the cities. Under China’s household registration (or Hukou) system, migrant families are required to be registered in their hometowns even if they live far away in cities. Without registration, families cannot receive state-subsidized services including those for health and education. Migrant children in cities must attend cheap, privately-run schools that are mostly unregulated by authorities.

Is China’s Test-centric Education System To Blame?

Professor Chu Zhaohui of the National Institute of Education Sciences told the South China Morning Post that school officials are required to keep track of students who drop out and pinned the blame for the boys’ deaths on them. Eight local Bijie officials, including the principals of two of the local schools some of the boys once attended, have indeed been sacked or suspended from their positions.

But Chu also emphasized that “Some of the street children are simply driven out of school because they couldn’t have a sense of belonging under a test-centric school regime.”

The sad fates of the five boys, and the plight of China’s millions of left-behind children, more than suggest that the country’s economic successes are very unevenly distributed. As Li Fangping, a Beijing lawyer investigating the five boys’ deaths, says with reference to the recent change of leadership in China’s ruling Communist Party, “What we’re seeing now is at odds with the harmonious and beautiful China that new leadership tries to project to the world.”

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500 CATS RESCUED in CHINA! 500 cats crammed in trucks…

Cats Eyes (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

 

Volunteers in China are weary but grateful as they provide care for 500 cats rescued rescued from the meat trade. These cats were saved by chance when a police officer pulled the vehicle over in the city of  Xuzhou after noticing it had out-of-town license plates.

Office Sun, who had been doing routine inspections along the roadway, began investigating when he heard crying coming from the back of a large agricultural vehicle. The driver told him that he was carrying rabbits, but when the office inspected the burlap bags in the back of the truck, he found hundreds of cats struggling for air and severely dehydrated.

A long standoff ensued as word went out to local animal rescue volunteers who began negotiating for the release of the cats. Although they had no legal standing to seize the animals, they refused to let the vehicle continue on. Haggling for custody of the cats stretched well into evening before the driver finally agreed to accept the equivalent of $800 for the cats.

Xuzhou Animal Rescuer Centre now has 1,000 animals in their shelter after this mass intervention. Some volunteers are reportedly getting ill from exhaustion, working around the clock for the cats, but they are determined to bring peace to these survivors. While some of the cats are settling in, others are still petrified of human contact. Their recovery will be long and the adoption process painstakingly slow.

Today the Harmony Fund has made a donation to help in the care of these cats as part of it’s year end international campaign Operation Holiday Kitty which will provide aid to an array of cat rescue efforts across the planet.

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• 500 Cats Saved from Being Served as Food in Chinese Restaurants (news.softpedia.com)
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