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Keywords
Chemical industry
Day
Fishing nets
KWCI (GPI)
Outdoors
Plastics
River pollution
Toxics (campaign title)
Fishing Nets in Jiangsu Province
Because of the pollution in the Yangtze River, fishing nets have to be cleaned every time they are used; a net only lasts one year.
Unique identifier:
GP025TR
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
08/03/2010
Locations:
Asia
,
China
,
Jiangsu
,
Taicang
,
Yanglingang
,
Yangtze River
Credit line:
© Lu Guang / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
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Fifty families of fishermen live in Yanglingang village, in the Jiangsu province. They fish for their livelihood and have drunk water from the Yangtze for decades. In the last few years, however, the river has been significantly polluted, and the
fishermen noticed that the water has a strange flavor. Since 2003, factory construction has erupted all around Yanglingang. Today the little fishing village is surrounded by power plants, paper-making factories, and chemical plants. Greenpeace together with photographer Lu Guang documented the life and death of this community living "under the pipe". The water that flows beneath the fishing boats is the same wastewater discharged from the factories, and the air that fishermen breathe is the same acrid, metallic air polluted by the factories.
The problem worsens in winter, when the water level of the river falls, but wastewater discharge does not decline. The fishermen often suffer stomachaches, diarrhea, and other diseases. This January, the village head Xu Jiabao suffered from the same kind of gastro-intestinal disorders.
The fishermen have gone to the local government and nearby industrial parks several times to report the pollution and request the installation of tap water for the village, yet years have passed with no action being taken.
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