CNN has reported that nearly 6,000 dead, bloated pigs have been pulled so far from the river that flows through the center of Shanghai. Reports also say they expect to find more pigs but they also say the city's water is fine.

A court has issued prison sentences for 46 people convicted of selling meat from diseased pigs. The corpses are allegedly dumped in the river by pig farms.

A later water sample was found to contain a porcine circovirus, Xinhua said. The WHO has said there are two types of porcine circoviruses, but neither is known to cause disease in humans.

The pink, decomposing pigs have created foul odors and alarmed residents. Some jokes like  "I finally figured out why drinking boiled water makes me gain weight == because it is in fact pork soup!" are also doing the rounds.

What is alarming is how on Earth someone thinks of dumping dead animals in city water  resources? It makes one fear how a few of us especially youth are going to educate the public on the consequences of their irresponsible actions.

We can educate, shout, cry, plead and do what else? Are these going to be enough? If humans do not have human values, we are degrading humanity to the Animal Kingdom.

Only way may be to innovate an electronic chip to be coded with human values and to be implanted in every baby at the time of birth. Samsung, are you hearing? I am still hopeful on Earth, right?

What an irony that we are talking of celebrating World Water Day and circulating the slogan "Water Water Everywhere only if we share". May be UN has to add the words "and care" at the end.