The
extent of the seriousness of China's water pollution problem can be
esily felt by visiting outsiders like us. One example is our experience
of hotel life. In Shanghai, the world's largest metropolis with more
than 16 million people, one finds in one hotel room a set of electric
water boiler and cups because most people there do not drink the water
spplied by the city water system. In other words, one must first "cook"
the pipe water before helping your self to a cupful.
This is the reason why most people, if not all, in Shanghai who work in
the high-rising business buildings and live in other high-rising
apartments buildings have to buy and drink water out of pet bottles and
larger commercially supplied water bottles, or else buy and use
expensive individual water purification equipments.
If the city government can deal with such major polluetants like colon
bacilli and other live germs, they still have to cope with such other
deadly pollutants like ionized heavy metals in addition to residual
chlorine and its derivatives.
All this is just too much of a problem for the city governments because
we can't expect them to take care of the upstream pollution of the
nation's vast farm lands.
I really wished I had a chance to help the city's problems where they
are and for what they are because this is exactly the type of a
situation our IT-TEC technology can be of great help to eliminate.
Apirl 17, 2009
Takemi Ichimura
Tokyo Life Science Laboratory
