Flooding exposes Chinese infrastructure woes
- From: Vol 11, Issue 8 (August 2010)
- Category: General
- Region: Asia
- Country: China
Extreme rainfall has left China’s wastewater networks unable to cope. Authorities have acknowledged the problem, but the solution will not come cheap.
Heavy summer rains have caused problems for many wastewater treatment plants in China. One example is the 400,000m3/d Qinghe wastewater treatment plant, the third largest in Beijing. With up to 500,000m3/d of stormwater surging into the system, the balance of 100,000m3/d of wastewater and stormwater has been simply flushed untreated into the Qing River ...
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