Water Back on After Algae Clog in China
Posted on: Monday, 4 June 2007, 00:00 CDT
BEIJING - Tap water for more than 2 million people in an eastern Chinese city was turned back on after blue-green algae clogged a lake and polluted the water supply, state media reported.
The water quality for Wuxi city was stable and local health authorities said it met standards for drinking, Xinhua News Agency reported late Sunday.
Tap water for the city was cut off on May 22 when Lake Tai started to stink because of the algae, sparking panic-buying of bottled water.
The algae bloom in Lake Tai, a famous but long-polluted tourist attraction in Jiangsu province, formed because water levels are at their lowest in 50 years, leading to excess nutrients in the water, Xinhua said.
Xinhua said over the weekend that the government artificially induced rainfall and diverted the Yangtze River to flush the lake, making the water clearer.
The algae bloom marks the latest fallout for China from decades of breakneck industrialization and lax enforcement of environmental regulations. Lake Tai, famed for centuries for its beauty, has become one of the country's most notoriously polluted bodies of water and a rallying point for an emerging environmental movement.
Source: Associated Press/AP Online
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