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Q: Is it safe to swim at the beaches, lakes or rivers in China?
Is there anything that has happened in the past that may make the beaches, lakes and rivers a hazard to swim? Including shark infested waters and toxic wastes. I'm not too familiar with the beaches, lakes or rivers but when I visited Shenzhen nobody was swimming in the water. The weather was nice and warm yet nobody went swimming.
12 years 19 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
I would feel safer swimming in the Hudson river near Manhattan.
Also nobody swims in Shenzhen because most don't know how.
crimochina:
i cant believe people actually eat the fish they catch there. i cant believe there are fish still there
you need to really watchout for codzilla the toxic waste in the rivers and lakes have led to the creation of of a weird creature 3 feet tall , they are actually not very dangerous just annoying . they go on the internet and create many alter egos and they post very bland nonsenseical drivel. they all claim to be american but of mixed ancestry to try and cover for their non-fluent but very formal english. many believe that the govt was trying to create Godzilla to attack japan (some bearucrat got the idea after watching Godzilla , no innovation no sense of reality)but instead created these little critters.
Sure MIchael Thomas, the water is just as safe to swim in as it is to drink. Jump in, paddle around, catch some fish between your teeth. You could have a nice dinner with it. 
Go, and make sure you weigh yourself down really well.
mattaya:
What I like to say is "if you try first I'll make sure I'm right behind you". -_^
If you swam in the reseviour up the road from me you would spend most of your time spitting out bits of styrofoam, plastic bottles or random sewage or rubbish which seems to float around up there.
Maybe a boat would be in order, but hey, that wouldn't be swimming would it?
Silly me.
