I love your "I've just had it" videos! You always add history but never embellish the facts! Always happy to see you've posted! Keep flying under the radar my good man!
In some tunnels, sewage grates turned out to be just that... A metal grill with no actual sewer pipes beneath it. Corruption leads to relentless corner cutting.... Leads to lots of man made tragedies in the guise of natural disasters. Also, many floods didn't need to happen but they hold off dam release either till it's too late or release it while people are sleeping and blame it on nature so the govt don't need to pay out insurance money. It's far too long to get into in one comment. It would fill hours of videos.
It is ironic to me that the Germans made the tap water in Qingdao safe to drink during their occupation but today you must boil that same water and preferably filter it for consumption. Of course, that clean water becomes the base material for Tsingtao beer.
If : * better infrastructures, * compulsory education, * modern technologies, more job and business opportunities (chance to escape from poverty), * prority to domestic issues, etc refers to China being DICTATOR ; 👇👇👇 While: * rampant homelessness. * poor health care (millions can’t afford health insurance). * crumbling infrastructure (e.g., subways, railways, bridges, etc.). * out-of-control gun violence and mass shootings (on average, one a day!). * systemic racism (“I can’t breathe”). * fentanyl addiction crisis. * mass incarceration (the highest number and highest per capita rate in the world) * growing poverty and widening economic disparity. refer the country "DEMOCRACY " 👇👇👇 Then I rather be living under a DICTATOR ...
@@nathant7437 Aren't you sour losers bored with same gimcrack poppycock "China Bad" stories hundreds of time propaganda by this China Observer ?? Never knew both you the white yanks and Falunatics are such dead beat people.!
Modern China has conflicted interests when it comes to water storage and releases. A lot of China is powered by hydro-electric, so the dams while the dams are sold to the public as flood prevention in fact they are a money printing machine for electricity. How the dams are managed therefore makes all the difference. If local officials release water to make room for flood storage their income decreases from electricity. So dams are always full and there is no capacity for flood management. When it rains the excess water is immediately released flooding everyone down stream. It's a local official greed management problem.
This is a strange video for someone who professes to travel a lot and lived in many countries. I also profess to travel a lot and watched news in every country of every country as a international manager but my experience is floods and drought is a regular events in every country and often news worthy kind of events. It isn't a China specific issue. Living in here in the South East Asia, water is a life giving and life taking element every year. Even Japan and Taiwan aren't spared. Lately even the middle east is experiencing floods and deaths, go figure. In South Asia it is part of life and death, particularly in Assam of India and Bangladesh. I believe the US has a weather problem as well plus water contamination from fracking. I would only drink bottled water even when I was in the US and Australia, a personal preference from travelling a lot. The only exception was when I was drinking cold water direct from the tap in Italy in summer and "holy" spring water in Tibet. And I have experience also with the same amazement, with rain outside and water rationing at home but I am not in China. Something to do with silting blocking the filtration system. And also strange that you do not see news of disasters in China, I see it regularly and graphically in my country and everywhere I travel, disasters sells. And Chinese disasters appears to be of a particulars special interest for western and Indian media and commentators. I guess it has something to do with the anti-China sentiments.
As a Chinese, just a few words 1. The Yellow River has been prone to flooding since ancient times, which is determined by China's monsoon climate 2. During the farming period, vegetation coverage in northern China was extremely low, because the population density was very high, almost approaching the limit of Malthusian population theory, so most of the vegetation was cut down 3. Boiling water was not popular in China until modern times. In ancient times, most people in China drank well water directly and only used boiled water when drinking tea. Young Chinese now prefer to drink bottled or purified water. 4. China's monsoon climate leads to very variable rainfall conditions, which is extremely easy to cause floods this year in places that were very dry last year, which is why Chinese people have been building DAMS since ancient times. 5. Global warming has also greatly increased the intensity of flooding in China, and the current economic situation in China is very poor, which will gradually lead to the deterioration of drainage/water supply systems in cities, and I have also felt that water outages have become more common in recent years
Not true. They happen annually. The drainage in Dongbei is horrific. Remember - just because it doesn't happen in YOUR neighborhood often, doesn't mean it's not happening elsewhere. When it rains hard (or semi-hard), Chinese cities flood. Simple as that.
I love your "I've just had it" videos! You always add history but never embellish the facts! Always happy to see you've posted! Keep flying under the radar my good man!
Water is not China’s Achilles heel, information is.
I wonder why the drainage is generally not great there? That could solve a chunk of the issues.
Good question. I'd assume they have the know-how. I have a couple of theories. I'll share them on Patreon :)
In some tunnels, sewage grates turned out to be just that... A metal grill with no actual sewer pipes beneath it.
Corruption leads to relentless corner cutting.... Leads to lots of man made tragedies in the guise of natural disasters.
Also, many floods didn't need to happen but they hold off dam release either till it's too late or release it while people are sleeping and blame it on nature so the govt don't need to pay out insurance money.
It's far too long to get into in one comment. It would fill hours of videos.
Drainage doesn't work if the ground is in low land
Very nice reporting.
Thanks for sharing.
It is ironic to me that the Germans made the tap water in Qingdao safe to drink during their occupation but today you must boil that same water and preferably filter it for consumption.
Of course, that clean water becomes the base material for Tsingtao beer.
Ya gotta scald your tastebuds off so you can’t taste the Cadmium.
Ah to live under a dictator.
If :
* better infrastructures,
* compulsory education,
* modern technologies, more job and business opportunities (chance to escape from poverty),
* prority to domestic issues, etc refers to China being DICTATOR ;
👇👇👇
While:
* rampant homelessness.
* poor health care (millions can’t afford health insurance).
* crumbling infrastructure (e.g., subways, railways, bridges, etc.).
* out-of-control gun violence and mass shootings (on average, one a day!).
* systemic racism (“I can’t breathe”).
* fentanyl addiction crisis.
* mass incarceration (the highest number and highest per capita rate in the world)
* growing poverty and widening economic disparity.
refer the country "DEMOCRACY "
👇👇👇
Then I rather be living under a DICTATOR ...
An ignorant, shameless dictator.
@@nathant7437
Aren't you sour losers bored with same gimcrack poppycock "China Bad" stories hundreds of time propaganda by this China Observer ??
Never knew both you the white yanks and Falunatics are such dead beat people.!
Compelling , and rich !👌
Another great everyday insight into the realities of existing in China.
😂😂😂😂worry about your country
How ironic mother nature observed them damming all the water from their neighbors and answered their request for more....
In other words; I know more about China than most chinese,because I can watch TH-cam with no restrictions?
Of course not, you are not really living in China, Chinese people are not all fools, there is always someone who can use ytb
Modern China has conflicted interests when it comes to water storage and releases. A lot of China is powered by hydro-electric, so the dams while the dams are sold to the public as flood prevention in fact they are a money printing machine for electricity. How the dams are managed therefore makes all the difference. If local officials release water to make room for flood storage their income decreases from electricity. So dams are always full and there is no capacity for flood management. When it rains the excess water is immediately released flooding everyone down stream. It's a local official greed management problem.
Can anyone vouch for wht this person is saying
Stay safe posting these videos
This is propaganda against China
This is a strange video for someone who professes to travel a lot and lived in many countries. I also profess to travel a lot and watched news in every country of every country as a international manager but my experience is floods and drought is a regular events in every country and often news worthy kind of events. It isn't a China specific issue. Living in here in the South East Asia, water is a life giving and life taking element every year. Even Japan and Taiwan aren't spared. Lately even the middle east is experiencing floods and deaths, go figure. In South Asia it is part of life and death, particularly in Assam of India and Bangladesh. I believe the US has a weather problem as well plus water contamination from fracking. I would only drink bottled water even when I was in the US and Australia, a personal preference from travelling a lot. The only exception was when I was drinking cold water direct from the tap in Italy in summer and "holy" spring water in Tibet.
And I have experience also with the same amazement, with rain outside and water rationing at home but I am not in China. Something to do with silting blocking the filtration system.
And also strange that you do not see news of disasters in China, I see it regularly and graphically in my country and everywhere I travel, disasters sells. And Chinese disasters appears to be of a particulars special interest for western and Indian media and commentators. I guess it has something to do with the anti-China sentiments.
Well china wanted to own the entire south china sea so the sea came to them
too many mountains ⛰
China has the largest water theme park in the world .
So that's where all the tap water went...
Super clean water too, I’m sure. 👍
12@9#
As a Chinese, just a few words
1. The Yellow River has been prone to flooding since ancient times, which is determined by China's monsoon climate
2. During the farming period, vegetation coverage in northern China was extremely low, because the population density was very high, almost approaching the limit of Malthusian population theory, so most of the vegetation was cut down
3. Boiling water was not popular in China until modern times. In ancient times, most people in China drank well water directly and only used boiled water when drinking tea. Young Chinese now prefer to drink bottled or purified water.
4. China's monsoon climate leads to very variable rainfall conditions, which is extremely easy to cause floods this year in places that were very dry last year, which is why Chinese people have been building DAMS since ancient times.
5. Global warming has also greatly increased the intensity of flooding in China, and the current economic situation in China is very poor, which will gradually lead to the deterioration of drainage/water supply systems in cities, and I have also felt that water outages have become more common in recent years
Lord you is a goa'uld system lord.
You told me you only talk facts, brother. Blame the water problem on me. There were no flash floods for 60 years until I visited Dongbei a month ago.
Not true. They happen annually. The drainage in Dongbei is horrific. Remember - just because it doesn't happen in YOUR neighborhood often, doesn't mean it's not happening elsewhere. When it rains hard (or semi-hard), Chinese cities flood. Simple as that.