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Chapter 3
Harbin leak in China
On November 13 in Jilin, a chemical plant was blasted, causing the pollution of the Songhua River. It had a very serious toxic leak and these toxic actually spread to Russia through the Songhua River nearby. Nitrobenzene level was about 3.7 times more than the healthy rate.
Due to the pollution, the water supply for hot and cold water was cut off for around 40 hours and this provided trouble for the residents living near the polluted river.
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My point of view
From what I see, China should not have held the leaking of the toxics into the river as a secret and assumed that the water is clean for use as there is no evidence of pollution. They should have been honest with the people as people living near the Songhua River depended on the river water for many uses. If the water is contaminated and the people still continued using, this may cause greater harm to the people there. Therefore, the government should have told them immediately what happened so that they can prevent themselves from getting poisoned.
Also, the safety rules of the chemical plants should also be changed so that it would be more saved from any leakages. This could be done by using more advanced equipment. This preventing of the leakage is very important as once the river gets polluted, not only will the people is affected by it, people from neighboring countries is also affected by it. Also, the environment would also be greatly harmed through this pollution. Like those marine sea creatures will also be affected by those chemicals. Many of them actually cannot live with too much of these toxics in the river.
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19-05-2007 1.13am
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