China's lakes drowning in pollution 中國湖泊污染溺水
Peh Shing Huei 白韞六盛輝
Publication Date : 13-07-2012出版日期：13-07-2012
Environment activist Wu Lihong at the heavily polluted Lake Tai in Jiangsu province. 環(huán)境活動家吳立紅在污染嚴(yán)重的江蘇省太湖。 The lake is coated with a green paint-like slush and scores of surrounding chemical plants still operate freely. 湖被涂上綠色的油漆，如爛泥和化工廠周圍的分?jǐn)?shù)仍然自由運(yùn)作。 (ST PHOTO: PEH SHING HUEI) （ST照片：PEH）
惡臭襲擊前太湖廣闊的感官方式映入眼簾。
It smells like manure, but with a tinge of spiciness that makes your eyes tear. 它的氣味像糞便，但色彩的辣味，使你的眼淚。
The nauseating odour is caused by toxic algae, an unwelcome long-time fetid denizen of China's third largest freshwater lake. 令人作嘔的氣味是由有毒的海藻，一個(gè)不受歡迎的長期惡臭的?？椭袊谌蟮?。
"On bad days, the foul smell can travel kilometres," said environment activist Wu Lihong, 44, who has been lobbying against industrial pollution of the 2,250 sq km Lake Tai for two decades. 環(huán)境活動家吳立紅，44歲，他已對工業(yè)污染的2,250平方公里的太湖二十年游說，說：“”壞天，臭味可行駛公里。
He has had little success. 他已經(jīng)有了收效甚微。 But if it is any consolation, he and the giant lake he tries to protect are not alone in this predicament. 但如果它是任何安慰，他和巨大的湖，他試圖保護(hù)沒有獨(dú)自在這種困境。
China is having a lake crisis. 中國是有一個(gè)湖危機(jī)。 Its biggest water bodies are all struggling with shrinkage and pollution amid modernisation and industrialisation. 其最大的水體都掙扎在現(xiàn)代化和產(chǎn)業(yè)化中的收縮和污染。
Lake Poyang, the largest in the country and about five times the size of Singapore, has dried up severely in recent years because of drought and the upstream Three Gorges Dam hoarding water so as to power its turbines. 鄱陽湖，在該國最大的新加坡大小的五倍左右，近年來，由于干旱和上游三峽大壩囤積水已經(jīng)干涸，嚴(yán)重功率的渦輪。 At its worst, earlier this year, only 200 sq km was under water instead of the normal 3,500 sq km. 在最壞的情況，今年早些時(shí)候，只有200平方公里，是在水中，而不是正常的3500平方公里。
When the shallow lake in central Jiangxi province has water, it is not a happy story either. 當(dāng)在江西省中部的淺湖有水，這是不是一個(gè)快樂的故事。 it is usually stained by phenol, a toxic chemical. 它通常是由苯酚，有毒化學(xué)品染色。
The smaller lakes suffer an even worse fate. 較小的湖泊遭 受的命運(yùn)更糟。 They simply disappear - at a rate of about 20 a year, according to the official Xinhua news agency. 他們完全消失-在每年約20的速度，根據(jù)官方的新華社。
Local governments and businesses drain the water bodies for construction, particularly to build lucrative apartments and offices. 地方政府和企業(yè)排出的水體建設(shè)，特別是建立有利可圖的公寓和寫字樓。
Take the central province of Hubei for instance. 采取例如湖北的中部省份。
Once named The Province of 1,000 Lakes, the total surface area of its lakes measures just 3,025 sq km today, according to official statistics. 一旦評為省1000湖區(qū)，其湖泊的總表面面積測量只有3,025平方公里的今天，根據(jù)官方的統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)字。 It was some 26,000 sq km a century back. 這是約26,000平方公里世紀(jì)前。
"I can't see how we can get any worse," said Renmin University environment analyst Shen Dajun. “我看不出我們?nèi)绾文茏兊酶訃?yán)重，人民大學(xué)環(huán)境分析師申答浚說。”
The government has been trying, beefing up legislation and increasing penalties for the polluting culprits. 政府一直在努力，加強(qiáng)立法和增加污染的罪魁禍?zhǔn)椎奶幜P。
The State Council, China's Cabinet, announced in February a pledge of 1.8 trillion yuan (SU$285 billion) to set up a nationwide information management system for water resources within the next three years. 國務(wù)院，中國的內(nèi)閣，宣布在二月1.8（蘇$ 285億美元）的承諾，成立一個(gè)全國性的信息管理系統(tǒng)，在未來三年內(nèi)的水資源。
But little has changed on the ground - and in the lakes. ，但很少在地面上已經(jīng)改變-在湖泊。
Lake Tai was still coated with a green paint-like slush and scores of surrounding chemical plants still operated freely when The Straits Times visited a fortnight ago. 太湖仍然涂上綠色的油漆仍然像爛泥和經(jīng)營自由“海峽時(shí)報(bào)”訪問時(shí)，兩星期前，周圍的化工廠分?jǐn)?shù)。
Fumes from the factories filled the air with a sickly antiseptic smell, literally leaving a bitter taste in the mouth. 一個(gè)體弱多病的防腐劑的氣味，從工廠的煙霧充滿空氣，硬是留在口中的苦味。
According to Wu, who was jailed for three years in 2007 on questionable charges, the plants are still dumping industrial dyes into the lake, usually at night. 據(jù)吳，誰是在2007年被判入獄三年可疑收費(fèi)，植物仍然傾倒入湖工業(yè)染料，通常是在晚上。
This has been going on despite an infamous crisis in 2007, when Lake Tai was hit by a massive toxic algae bloom, shutting down the tap water supply to some two million people. 這已經(jīng)持續(xù)了臭名昭著的危機(jī)，盡管在2007年，太湖是一個(gè)龐大的有毒藍(lán)藻襲擊時(shí)，關(guān)停大約有兩百萬人的自來水供應(yīng)。
Locals no longer drink water or eat seafood from it, ending centuries of a love affair with its famous white shrimp, whitebait and whitefish. 當(dāng)?shù)厝瞬辉俸鹊乃虺院ｕr，與著名的白蝦，銀魚和白魚的戀情結(jié)束的世紀(jì)。
"The young people below 30 years old here can't swim. They have no lake to practise in," said Wu, who remains under close surveillance by security officials. “下面30年老在這里的年輕人可以不會游泳。”他們沒有湖練習(xí)中，吳說，安全官員的密切監(jiān)視下仍然。
He is not optimistic that the lake can be saved. 他并不樂觀，湖泊可以保存。
Neither is Professor Shen, who said: "If you close these polluting factories, it will have a severe impact on the local economy and employment. 既不是沉教授，他說：“如果關(guān)閉這些污染嚴(yán)重的工廠，將有一個(gè)對當(dāng)?shù)亟?jīng)濟(jì)和就業(yè)造成嚴(yán)重影響。
"It is not just a pollution problem. We may see slight improvement in the short term, but we won't be able to solve it at its roots." “這不只是一個(gè)污染問題，在短期內(nèi)，我們可能會看到略有改善，但我們將不能夠解決它的根源。”
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