A professor visiting China emailed me this morning and jokingly asked what he should look for in Guiyu or Wuhan in his spare time.
Sometimes a pithy email response makes the best blog fodder. My response:
You don't need to really go to Guiyu or Agbogbloshie if you have Google maps. Just find press coverage of Basel Action Network or Blacksmith Institute's toxic River sample. Then identify the river and find a site a few kilometers upstream and then Google search for contaminated water samples upstream.Based on that evidence, Guiyu and Agbogbloshie are making the river cleaner (though of course that is because the samples upstream were taken years earlier when it was even worse).Science!!!
I'm referring of course to the Guiyu river samples from the largest textile factory hub on earth, upstream from Guiyu, whose water samples are nearly identical to the Bangladesh Lourajong River samples downstream from the Bangladesh second-largest textile manufacturing hub on earth. Surprise, Guiyu's samples look the same as the river samples of the textile effluent samples upstream from Guiyu.
