Water Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/11/25/build/world/40-china-water_v.inc">Toxic river water flows through major Chinese city</a><br />n<br />nI always here about how bad a polluter the US is and look at this story. Four million people without clean drinking water due to pollution of the river. What is going to happen to cities downstream when this plume of pollution reaches them? Same thing.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The disaster has highlighted the environmental damage caused by China's sizzling economic growth and the complaints that the secretive communist government is failing to enforce public safety standards. The government says all major rivers are dangerously polluted and many cities lack adequate drinking water.</blockquote><br />n<br />nChina in general is a major polluter but for some reason everybody still looks at the US as the big Bad Wolf of polluters. Why is that? China is exempt from the Koyoto Protocols and they are a major polluter. Is this fair?<br />n<br />nThe explosive growth of India and China is putting great strain on the planet but nobody seems to be concerned, but this story shows that people should be concerned and paying more attention. Four million people without water, what a disaster for the people and the planet.<br />n<br />n<b>The environmentalists – the self-centered bunch, the waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots that don't understand that they're leading this country into environmental disaster. Don Young</b>