These people are producing more shit, literally, than any other place except maybe India........ what are they doing with it? It would appear they dump it into the ocean, untreated........ where are the environmentalist? The Olympics should open a few eyes to how third world most of this place is.



http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/30/asia/china.php



Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea

By Jim Yardley Published: June 30, 2008


BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.

Local officials have initiated an all-out effort to clean up the algae by mid-July. Media reports estimate that as many as 20,000 people have either volunteered or been ordered to participate in the operation, while 1,000 boats are scooping algae out of the Yellow Sea. The official news agency, Xinhua, reported that algae currently covered a third of the coastal waters designated for the Olympic races.

Water quality has been a concern for the sailing events, given that many coastal Chinese cities dump untreated sewage into the sea. At the same time, rivers and tributaries emptying into coastal waters are often contaminated with high levels of nitrates from agricultural and industrial runoff. These nitrates contribute to the red tides of algae that often bloom along sections of China's coastline.