$32,000 for filthy swim?

The chairman of a local glasses store in Hangzhou, has offered 200,000 yuan ($32,000) to the head of the local environmental protection bureau to swim in this filthy river for 20 minutes. There is no news of a response, but the local environmental protection bureau has already taken measures to sort out the waste, which they said were domestic garbage, not industrial waste. Workers clean a polluted river in Rui'an city, East China's Zhejiang province, Feb 18, 2013. [Photo by Zheng Tao/Asianewsphoto]