China's 'cancer villages' heavily polluted - Washington Times

China's 'cancer villages' heavily polluted - Washington Times:

"XIADIAN, China | Located just downstream from three steel factories, a paper mill and a bone-processing plant, the citizens of Xiadian have grown used to seeing the Baoqiu River turn red, yellow and sometimes white from what they say is untreated industrial wastewater.

The town also has seen at least 50 of its 3,000 residents die of cancer in the past five years; an unknown number of others are being treated for cancer or other pollution-related diseases.

'People get cancer and die; there's not much to do about it. There's not much to hope for,' said Mrs. Zuo, a 24-year-old restaurant worker who asked that she be identified by only her last name."