E-8 China - Pollution turns Yellow River red

Pollution turns Yellow River red A stretch of China's Yellow River turned red for the second time in a month because of pollution, media says..... Waste water from a heating station near the city of Lanzhou contaminated 1km of the river, the country's second longest, according to Xinhua..

Some 21,000 chemical factories are believed to be located along China's rivers and coastline - more than half on the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, which are relied upon by millions of people..... At the beginning of the year, the country's environment chief warned that more than 100 of those chemical plants posed safety threats.