Source: Global Network
[Global Network Comprehensive Report Reporter Zhao Youping] Taiwan's China Times News Network said that an irrigation canal near the northeast community of Yuanlin City, Changhua County, Taiwan showed a bright red color on the morning of the 23rd, "quite thrilling". The local environmental protection bureau found that a nearby printing company accidentally knocked over the raw materials.
According to China Times News Network, Changhua County councillor Cao Jiahao posted a message on Facebook that he received a report from the public at around 8 a.m. on the 23rd that there was a ditch in Lane 141, Shanjiao Road, Northeast Community, "blood flows into a river". He went to the scene to check and found that the ditch that should have been clear was dyed bright red. He said, "It's really too terrifying, blood flows into a river." Cao Jiahao said that he looked up and found that there was a suspected company that was secretly discharged sewage, and then informed the local environmental protection bureau to go to the site for inspection.
reported that some local residents were worried that pollution would affect the nearby irrigation water, and some netizens left messages saying, "It's too exaggerated to be red, and there are rice fields we eat next to it" and "It's too outrageous."
According to ETtoday News Cloud, the Changhua County Environmental Protection Bureau investigated and found that it was a printing company that caused the trouble. The company admitted that it would be fined more than 30,000 yuan (NT$) in accordance with the "Pollution Prevention and Control Law".