Thursday, July 19, 2007

Pictures of the Day - Pollution in China

Via guardian.co.uk -


Wuhan, Hebei province: A man collects dead fish in Donghu lake, where officials say an estimated 30,000kg of fish have been killed by a combination of pollution and hot weather
(Photograph: Wuhan/AP)



Beijing: A worker clears rubbish from canal. Reports suggest that as many as 300 million Chinese people - nearly one in every four - drink dirty water (Photograph: Teh Eng Koon/AFP/Getty Images)



Beijing: Taxis queue up outside the city's main railway station. Beijing's Olympic organizers plan to reduce the number of taxis from its roads by 50,000 as a way to combat air pollution
(Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)

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