Chinese Internet Users Challenge Local Environmental Chiefs to Swim in Polluted Rivers

Offering rewards for success

Swim for a half-hour in a river in east China's Cangnan county and win $48,000.

Sound like easy money? Take a look at the river.

Chinese angry about their toxic and trash-choked rivers have made online offers of cash rewards to the chiefs of their local government's environmental protection bureaus to take a swim in the waterways they are in charge of protecting.