Why would Chinese farmers dump their livestock in a river? Disease, they don't have money for veterinarians? Do the Chinese export their pork? The meat product, not their corporate pork.
Officials say they have to act quickly (click here) to remove the pigs, as the Huangpu River is a major source of drinking water for the city.
They are investigating the cause of the deaths and suspect the pigs were dumped by farms upriver.
Bloggers have criticised what some see as a slow government response...
So much for pork chop suey.
Shanghai is an important economic, (click here) financial, trade and shipping center in China. It contributes greatly to the whole nation's economic structure and the development of society....
...Researchers focused on nine large coastal cities built on river deltas: Buenos Aires, Calcutta, Casablanca, Dhaka, Manila, Marseille, Osaka, Rotterdam and Shanghai. They found that the prosperous Chinese metropolis was more vulnerable than poorer cities such as Dhaka....
That livestock could be coming from anywhere along the Grand Canal. Seriously. Just because they are being noticed near Shanghai doesn't mean it is coming from Zhejiang province. The Chinese government needs to find out where the pigs are floating up the entire of the Grand Canal if the origins are not found in Zhejiang. Bloated livestock means the animals have been dead for days.
China is not immune from huge winter storms either. They need to check on their people to be sure there are not dead citizens along with the pigs.
So much for pork chop suey.
Shanghai is an important economic, (click here) financial, trade and shipping center in China. It contributes greatly to the whole nation's economic structure and the development of society....
A. Sea level rise and ground base subsidence (click here)
Shanghai, a city bordered by both sea and river and built on a delta, is sensitive to sea level rise and land subsidence which are directly related to urban flood prevention, the draining of waterlogged fields and resistance to some natural disasters, such as wind storms, and to economic construction.
In the Shanghai urban areas, the ground level is generally less than 4.5 m and the lowest is between- 3.0 and 3.5 m. The level in most of Jing'an District and some parts of Putuo District is less than 3.0 m. The lowest is 2.3 m. At Huangpu Park hydrometric station, the perennial mean high tidal level is 3.11 m, while the flood tidal level can be 4.0-4.35 m during the flood season (June-September). The highest tidal level on record is 5.22 m (1 September 199l), which means that all urban ground level is lower than the higher tidal levels during the flood tidal season.
The Shanghai meteorological station forecasts that absolute sea level in Wusong will rise at an accelerating rate. The rising rate is forecast to be 2.5mm/a in the period 1999-2030, and 5.00 mm/a in the 2030-2050 period. The absolute rising height is 5cm, 10cm and 20cm in 2010, 2030 and 2050 respectively.
Moreover, since land subsidence was first discerned in Shanghai city in 1921, the accumulative mean subsidence in urban areas had reached 1.76 m by 1995. The maximum subsidence is 2.63 m. The fastest descending rate is 287 mm/a (table 22), and the coverage reached is 400 km2....
Shanghai is the most vulnerable (click here) to serious flooding among nine big coastal cities around the world, a study suggests.
The findings are based on a new measure called the Coastal City Flood Vulnerability Index, which looks beyond the likelihood of a city’s physical exposure to a serious flood to include social, economic, political and administrative factors....
...Researchers focused on nine large coastal cities built on river deltas: Buenos Aires, Calcutta, Casablanca, Dhaka, Manila, Marseille, Osaka, Rotterdam and Shanghai. They found that the prosperous Chinese metropolis was more vulnerable than poorer cities such as Dhaka....That livestock could be coming from anywhere along the Grand Canal. Seriously. Just because they are being noticed near Shanghai doesn't mean it is coming from Zhejiang province. The Chinese government needs to find out where the pigs are floating up the entire of the Grand Canal if the origins are not found in Zhejiang. Bloated livestock means the animals have been dead for days.
China is not immune from huge winter storms either. They need to check on their people to be sure there are not dead citizens along with the pigs.
