Shanghai Expo to Build Wetland Park to Purify Water
Chengdu City, capital of Sichuan Province, will build a wetland park at the 2010 World Expo that uses soil and vegetation to purify rainwater.
The 2,680-square-meter park in the Puxi section of the Expo site will be the city’s Urban Best Practices Area showcase.
The 20 million yuan (US$2.92 million) park can purify about 30 cubic meters of water everyday and the water will be used to flush toilets on the Expo site.
The park will be shaped like a fish as Chengdu is known as the land of f…