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Contamination of drinking water from feces is a critical health problem in China, as in other developing countries, that causes serious illnesses such as diarrhea and viral hepatitis. A 2010 survey by UNICEF in 11 provinces found that over half of all drinking water samples contained unacceptably high levels of bacteria. [17]
China's fresh water resources include 2500 cubic kilometers of mean annual run-off in its rivers and 828.8 cubic kilometers of groundwater recharge.As pumping water draws water from nearby rivers, the total available resource is less than the sum of surface and groundwater, and this is only 2,821.4 cubic kilometers. 80% of these resources are in the South of China. [3]
Nongfu Spring water bottles Shuirong C100. Nongfu Spring (simplified Chinese: 农夫山泉; traditional Chinese: 農夫山泉; pinyin: Nóngfū Shānquán; lit. "farmer's mountain spring") Is a Chinese bottled water and soft beverage company headquartered in Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
Chinese online users accused Nongfu's tea drink of featuring carp-shaped windsocks, which some say look like Japan's traditional carp flag koinobori.
The Hong Kong Consumer Council, the Chinese city's consumer protection watchdog, is causing a headache for the largest bottled water supplier in China. ... Bromate is a byproduct formed when ...
In China, drinking cold or iced water is believed to be bad for your body, and many people drink hot water instead.
Due to the historic usage of lead water pipes, many jurisdictions have legal limits on safety levels of lead content in drinking water. Hong Kong standards limit the acceptable lead content of drinking water to 10 micrograms of lead per litre, the same standard as Europe, Australia, Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.
Nongfu Spring is getting a lesson in that now, as the brand is being targeted by nationalistic social media users in China, accusing the bottled water company of being pro-Japan. On Chinese social ...