China Fines 88 Businesses for Groundwater Pollution
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
China's Environmental Protection Ministry has fined 88 businesses in the northern part of the country for polluting groundwater sources.
A spokesman told reporters on May 9 that the ministry had checked 25,875 companies that discharge wastewater, focusing on enterprises located in Beijing and Tianjin municipalities.
The probe uncovered 558 violations of regulations on effluent discharge. In addition, it found that 55 companies were using seepage wells, sewage pits or ditches with no anti-leakage measures or facilities to store the polluted water.
A ministry report on "The handling of important environmental pollution events in the first quarter of 2013" details 13 significant cases of environmental pollution so far this year, four of them in the plains of Northern China. The cases are all related to wastewater disposal.
The businesses posing the greatest threat in the area are mainly poultry farming enterprises and heavy metal and chemical industries.
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