Eighty-four percent of China's sewage outfalls are discharging
excessive pollutants directly into the sea, causing severe damage
to its offshore eco-system, according to the observation results
released by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA).
An official with SOA said natural ecological conditions of
China's main estuaries, bays and coastal wetlands are negatively
affected.
In order to get enough information about the pollution
discharged from the land, SOA's organs at various levels have
conducted comprehensive monitoring since 2005.
The results show the aggregate amount of sewage that ran from
the land to the sea in 2005 totaled 31.7 billion tons, containing
14.63 million tons of pollutants such as nutrient salt and fecal
bacteria.
More than 90 percent of sewage outfalls in each of the following
five provincial-level coastal regions like Tianjin, Hebei,
Shandong, Zhejiang and Guangdong are over-discharging harmful
pollutants into neighboring seas.
(Xinhua News Agency February 3, 2006)
