城市排水sewerage, 城市污水sewage, 注意差别!
环保局局长办公室Office of EPA Chief of Staff
http://www.ppfibre.cn/Html/news/20066/20066168372.html新上任的newly-commissioned (appointed)
年轻有为young and capable
大陆Main Land of China
“大修砝�穆砺?” 是乱码，不理解
Solution Schemes for Sewerage
Focus on The 5th Shanghai International Urban Road Planning Conference-Sewerage Problems
Scene I
Place: Office of EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Chief of Staff, , Pudong New District, Shanghai
Time: July 20, 2006
Character: Li XX (the newly-commissioned director, young and capable)
Cause of the event: The newly-commissioned director never dreams of a common E-mail making a little difference to his official career only a week after his inauguration.
The rough content of the original text of the E-mail was as following:
“Dear Director Li,
I am Jenny, an overseas Chinese, who is going to spend her vacation in Main Land of China. However, while walking along the streets in the sweltering summer, I always smell nasty odor emitting from the sewers. Many cities I visited were the same, especially in Shanghai. I was really puzzled why sewerage problems were ignored while many municipal roads are being broadened in these cities. I want to know that why the sewers can’t be dug deeper?”
After reading the E-mail, Director Li thought profoundly, and soon he called up Richard, the chief executive editor of the magazine “New Shanghai”, and indicated him to compile the discussion of this investigation combined with the coming Shanghai International Urban Road Planning Conference.
Scene II
Place: Office of the Chief Executive Editor of the magazine “New Shanghai”
Time: July 20, 2006
Character: Richard (He was ever majored in landscape design, and his overseas studying experience made him turn his original major to journalism. Years of hard work, he was promoted to the chief executive editor finally)
Received the director's indication, he felt confused, although he has served as editor-in-chief for many years. What will he do? For his keen sensitivity of a newspaperman, he looked through the list of the expert members to be present at the conference, and he found Leoh Ming Pei, a Chinese-American architect. Thus the event had a bright prospect.
Scene III
Place: Meeting Room, the fifth flat, Shanghai EPA
Time: August 23, 2006
Characters: experts in road-planning from all over the world
(After a series of speeches and discussions)
Chairman: All right. Since you have expressed your suggestions, then I am pleased to ask the master of architecture, Mr. Leoh Ming Pei, to share his unique findings with us.
Leoh Ming Pei
Hey, hey! Now that you all have presented your research reports, I will not repeat your remarks. Instead, I am to focus my personal views on city-planning, welcome any comments and criticisms.
以下内容照搬King 2014,未作任何更正，容思考后再回答。
First, I maintain that it takes tens of years, even one hundred years, to plan, construct, develop, and mature a city. Similarly, judging from the current situations, it will take a long time for the cities in China to catch up with New York. If we compare the development of New York with that of Shanghai, it is not surprising to see that the city-planning in China leaves much to be desired. More often than not, as soon as a construction project is finished, another is under progress. This way, the later project does some damage to the earlier one. Then it becomes clear that the power supply networks, sewage system, and city roads were poorly arranged. By contrast, the success of New York lies in the simple fact that New Yorkers had done a great deal of admirable preparatory work before their city grew into a metropolitan unit. In fact, the Chinese have a lot to learn from the New Yorkers. What I want to emphasize is that the foreigners made the perfect plan for their city one or two hundred years ago.
Second, we can easily see that a lot of Hollywood’s popular action films were shot right in the sewage tunnel. That illustrates that their
sewage engineering project was extremely well-planned. Besides, there were many scenes in foreign movies in which the actors ran along the tunnel-like duct for a long period of time. A little while ago, the animation cartoon, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, was highly popular throughout China, whose heroes lived exactly in the ducts all their lives. This fact explains how much more well-planned foreign sewage systems are.
Thirdly, as for technical matters, I must point out that the sewage system will get clogged sooner or later no matter how deep it is. Sewage water will mix with underground water after it is filtered by soil. However, because of improper flow and damage to pipes, sewage water gets sour. If the fermented water is left alone, the situation will get worse. Where the water is shallower, there is little or no unpleasant odor. That is because the duct is wider at that point and the water flows away rapidly. Let me explain this by giving an example familiar to all of you. Say you have a liking for rib soup. If you leave the soup untouched too long, the delicious soup is sure to go sour....
(All the experts present on the spot are amused by the impressive speech, which is worth the name of “uniqueness.”)
CHAIRMAN OF THE CONFERENCE
Right here and now the central discussion of the fifth International Municipal Road-Planning Conference has drawn to a fruitful end.
Scene IV
Place: Director’s Office of EPA, Pudong New District
Time: May 1, 2008
Character: Director Li, who has achieved great success after serving as Director of EPA, Pudong for some years
Background: A short time before the opening of the Beijing Olympics, Li is appointed as Director of Environmental Protection Agency, Beijing. Just at this time, he receives another piece of E-mail, which brings him pleasure beyond description. The message contained therein is as follows.
“Dear Director Li,
Hi. I am Jenny, an overseas Chinese. Several years ago, I came to Shanghai and sent a message to you by E-mail, mentioning the sewage problem. This time when I stroll around your city again, I find that you have done a good job by getting rid of the headaches. I am thankful to you for the efforts you have made...”
Director Li thought that “China has a long way to go and is sure to have a bright tomorrow. I can take a deep breath at last.