New Photos Show why China is the World’s Worst Polluter
A man smokes at a pond filled with dead fish on the outskirts of Wuhan. (Reuters)
Not much of a surprise here…From the of off-the-charts levels of air pollutants recently recorded in Beijing, to massive fish die offs and waste chemicals being dumped directly into its main waterways, China has quickly been gaining the well earned reputation as the world’s worst polluter.
The Beijing city government will soon release the results of stricter air pollution standards, Chinese media reported on last week, following a public outcry that authorities are understating the extent of smog that often shrouds the capital.
A cocktail of smokestack emissions, vehicle exhaust, dust and aerosols have at times blanketed the city in a pungent, dark shroud for days on end, and has even forced the cancellation of flights.
These hard to stomach images from Reuters show a land drastically changed in the country’s last decades of massive growth… a hard earned payment to become the product producing powerhouse that it is today.
A journalist takes a sample of the red polluted water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang, Henan province December 13, 2011. (Reuters / China Daily)
According to local media, the sources of the pollution are two illegal chemical plants discharging their production waste water into the rain sewer pipes. (Reuters / China Daily)
Labourers work to drain sewage water from a leaked sewage tank at a copper mine in Shanghang, Fujian province. (Reuters)
Labourer works at waste residue dump site of a chemical plant in Xiangfan. (Reuters)
Chinese worker cleans oil residue in Daqing. (Reuters)
A boy swims in the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, Shandong province in China in July. (Reuters / China Daily)
Fishermen load bags of dead fish onto a forklift at the Mian Hua Tan reservoir in Yongding county. (Reuters)
Pipes coming from a rare earth smelting plant spew polluted water into a vast tailings dam near Xinguang Village. (Reuters)
Industrial sewage from a textile dyeing factory is drained from a pipe into the Yangtze River in Yichang. (Reuters)
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this is why chinese products are so cheap.