China’s Pollution-Fighting Farm

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Editors note: This story is a little older, but demonstrates that China is working on its pollution problems. However, with limitations.

 

theworld.org-7/11/11, Mary Kay Magistad

 

 

China has some of the world’s worst water pollution. And the country’s farms are responsible for a big part of that problem. So there is a certain irony in visiting a farm here that purports to actually help reduce pollution from other sources. But that’s the claim of a 100-acre hydroponic farm in China’s southwest.

The farm on the edge of Dianchi lake grows some 30 types of vegetables, including long green rows of lettuce and spinach that sway in the wind and float on platforms with their roots in the water.

 

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