More than 300 million of Chinese rural population are denied access to clean potable water.
90% of waterways that flow through China 's cities and over 75 % of lakes and rivers are polluted.
An article in the Wall Street Journal, “factories and cities dump some 40 to 60 billion tons of wastewater and sewage into lakes and rivers each year.”
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Untreated waste water is dumped straight into small streams
which flow into Tai Lake.
Courtesy Pacific Environmental
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In November 2005, after a petro-chemical plant exploded releasing
100 tons of benzene into the Songhua River in Northeastern China,
the Chinese government was forced to publicly and internationally
acknowledge the country’s water pollution crisis.
Courtesy Pacific Environmental
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