世界十大最干净的国家,世界上最干净的国家排行榜

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据美国《国会山报》等媒体3月26日报道,美国宾夕法尼亚州一家工厂日前发生泄漏事故,导致超过8000加仑用于乳胶表面处理的化学物质流入当地一条河流中。费城官员当天已向市民发出警告。

此次泄漏事故是由位于宾州布里斯托尔的一家工厂的管道破裂引起的,导致约8100加仑(约30661升)化学物质在25日晚流入特拉华河的一条支流。特拉华河为该市58%的地区供水。费城交通、基础设施和可持续发展办公室官员迈克·卡罗尔说“到目前为止还没有检测到污染物”,并表示该州最大的饮用水处理厂在26日早上已关闭了进水口。

世界十大最干净的国家,世界上最干净的国家排行榜(1)

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The US is the world’s richest country. So why can’t I get a glass of clean drinking water?

美国作为世界上最富有的国家,为何一杯干净的饮用水也喝不到呢?

My wife is wonderful in every way, but I realised over the weekend tHat she is simply not built for the apocalypse. On Sunday, I was scrolling through Twitter and having a nice cup of tea when I saw a tweet from a guy called Ya Fav Trashman about a chemical spill that might affect Philadelphia drinking water. “Equipment failure” at a Trinseo chemical facility had dumped more than 8,000 gallons (about 30,000 litres) of “latex emulsion product” into the Delaware river. You can’t just boil or filter these chemicals out of your water.

我的妻子什么都很好,但上周末我意识到,她真的不具备在灾难中生存的技能。上周日,我一边刷推特,一边喝着香茶,突然看到名叫“Ya Fav Trashman”(你们最爱的垃圾清理战士)的网友发的一条推特,说一次化学物质泄漏可能会影响费城的饮用水。盛禧奥(Trinseo)化工厂的“设备故障”导致8000多加仑(约3万升)的“橡胶乳液产品”流入德拉瓦河。这些化学物质并不能被煮沸分解或过滤掉。

I immediately spat out my Delaware River tea. (Perhaps the latex was why it was going down so smoothly?) “Yikes,” I said. “We’d better get some bottled water.” My wife volunteered to go to the nearest shop. She came back with … two bottles. A human prune, I live in a permanently dehydrated state, but my wife chugs water like her life depends on it. “That’s going to last you half an hour,” I said. “I hope this crisis only lasts half an hour.”

我立刻把嘴里德拉瓦河水泡的茶吐了出来。(也许是橡胶的作用,它喝起来才会如此丝滑?)“哎呀。”我说。“我们最好买些瓶装水。”我妻子主动提出要去最近的商店。她带了…两瓶水回来。我处于常年脱水的状态,一个活生生的真人版西梅果干,但我妻子大口喝水续命。于是我说,“这够你撑半小时了,我希望这场危机只持续半个小时。”

Reader, it did not. At that moment, everyone in Philadelphia, about 1.5 million people, got an emergency phone alert. It told us that, starting an hour later, at 2pm, we should use bottled water for drinking and cooking, out of an “abundance of caution”. I grabbed a bag and ran to Rite Aid, the nearest purveyor of bottled water. It was crammed and the atmosphere was very jolly. There was still plenty of water available and nobody was buying ridiculous amounts, so there was a general feeling of: “Ha ha, we’re all going through dystopia together!”

读者朋友,事实并非如此。当时,费城约150万人每人都收到了紧急电话通知。通告我们,出于“非常谨慎”的考虑,一个小时后,即下午2点开始,我们应该饮用瓶装水,用瓶装水做饭。我抓起一个袋子,跑到瓶装水最近的供应点来德爱(Rite Aid)。店里挤满了人,气氛十分轻松惬意。当时可供购买的水还有很多,没有人疯狂囤水,所以人们普遍有一种感觉:“哈哈,我们都在一起经历糟糕境遇!”

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文本选自:The Guardian(卫报)

作者:Arwa Mahdawi

原文发布时间:29 Mar. 2023

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