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Villagers blame highway for water pollution, high cancer rates
By Wang Xiang |
August 13, 2010, Friday
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PEOPLE in a remote south China village blamed a soaring cancer rates on an expressway which they claimed has polluted the water source.
Residents in Tuerguan Village of Yunnan Province told today Kunming Daily they never knew cancer 10 years ago except hearing of it from news reports. But various cancers began to haunt the villagers after the highway was built 10 years ago. Two villagers died last month.
The past decade registered thirty-seven cancer patients in Tuerguan which has a population of 720. Twenty-seven of them are dead, and 13 of them were under the 50s.
The village had a reservoir as its only water source, which collects spring and rain water. The water was clear and sweet before the highway was built, villagers told the newspaper.
The water started to have stench after the construction of the highway began. Villagers discovered that the highway has blocked and destroyed many springs.
Rain water trickled from the highway into the reservoir before it mixed with gas oil from around 30,000 cars passing the village every day on the highway.
"Fear is spreading," said a villager, surnamed Tang. "Those who can afford to move out of the village have gone."
Residents in Tuerguan Village of Yunnan Province told today Kunming Daily they never knew cancer 10 years ago except hearing of it from news reports. But various cancers began to haunt the villagers after the highway was built 10 years ago. Two villagers died last month.
The past decade registered thirty-seven cancer patients in Tuerguan which has a population of 720. Twenty-seven of them are dead, and 13 of them were under the 50s.
The village had a reservoir as its only water source, which collects spring and rain water. The water was clear and sweet before the highway was built, villagers told the newspaper.
The water started to have stench after the construction of the highway began. Villagers discovered that the highway has blocked and destroyed many springs.
Rain water trickled from the highway into the reservoir before it mixed with gas oil from around 30,000 cars passing the village every day on the highway.
"Fear is spreading," said a villager, surnamed Tang. "Those who can afford to move out of the village have gone."
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