I have been researching some issues dealing with contaminated water. I found an article that talked about fish farmers who were fishing in contaminated waters. The article was from the New York Times Website, Januray 18, 2008. The title of the article was China Says Its Seafood Is Now Safer and Better and was written by David Barboza. I found out that these fish farmers had their exports rejected in Japan and the United States because the fish were contaminated. They found out that the cause of the contamination was from the cities and industries polluting the waterways. The article also explained how China is the largest exporter of fish to Japan and the United States.
This is an example of how contaminated water in one area can have effects on other people too. The fishermen lose sales and the buyers lose food. Another reason why there is such a huge demand for these fish is that the ocean is yielding less fish, so now other countries rely on China’s land based fish farming. I hope that the big corporations will see that trying to get rid of their problems to other countries might finally be catching up to them. It looks like only a matter of time before these people are eating a fish and realize that it came from a far away place where their business contaminated the water. Maybe they will start caring about other people once they are being affected by the problems.
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