Lanzhou water pollution becomes hot "big data" in China

The "Big data" here is not the result of a huge database, or of what it is based on complex operations, but these numbers are really big. These ridiculously large numbers may make you crash glasses, some even make you uneasy ...

More than 360 million of Chinese lack safe water

At the end of March, our government officially issued a warning of water pollution through the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/29268.html > China Daily. Government officials also said for the first time that 360 million Chinese people are expected to lack safe drinking water. In addition, officials admit that 70% of the rivers and lakes in China have been contaminated.

The World Bank's statistics are even worse: 90% of urban groundwater and 75% of rivers and lakes are contaminated. This means that 700,000,000 people drink contaminated water every day.

April 11, Lanzhou City, Gansu province, the only water supply enterprises Veolia Company's factory water and artesian ditch samples were detected in the benzene content of nearly 20 times times, as a result of benzene as a toxic chemical substances, contact will be harmful to the human body, Lanzhou city government that afternoon notice the next 24 hours of water should not drink, The news sparked panic among local citizens and snapped up pure water. Lanzhou municipal government said that the water benzene exceeded, the Department of Petroleum Lanzhou Petrochemical Branch pipeline occurred in the oil spill, pollution of water supply enterprises artesian ditch. Now "Suddenly" infiltrated the Lanzhou Veolia Water Group Water Works Artesian ditch. As the physical causes of the accident become clearer, the public is increasingly concerned about the management responsibility behind the accident and whether the responsibility will be seriously pursued.

The public is now eager to issue a lot of questions: Lanzhou water plant artesian ditch and Lanzhou petrochemical underground pipe network criss-cross, has anyone considered the petrochemical raw materials or products infiltrated the water plant artesian ditch safety risk? Lanzhou Petrochemical In the last century in the 80 's the infiltration of pollutants into the ground, why did not get the necessary treatment? Have you considered the long-term risk of this pollution infiltration? In addition to corporate environmental responsibility, there are local government oversight responsibilities.

The local government has another three responsibilities: first, 1 months ago, the local tap water was reported "peculiar smell", although the authorities have denied the "smell" and benzene exceeded the correlation, but the "smell" has a security risk warning role, the local government to people deaf, complacency impression The second is late to Veolia found water benzene exceeded 18 hours after the local accident to the public, resulting in a large number of residents continue to drink benzene exceeded water.