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Feb 22, 2013Water Pollution In China

Economic prosperity often brings with it enviromental destruction. It certainly seems to do so in China.

Polluted water in Songhua River reaches Harbin. CDIC/REUTERS

Children fish in a polluted river covered with algae in Hefei. Jianan Yu/REUTERS

Child swims in polluted reservoir in Pingba. CDIC/REUTERS

A fisherman jumps from his boat to the bank after the morning fishing at a polluted river in Hefei. Jianan Yu/REUTERS

A man swims in a polluted canal in the centre of Beijing. David Gray/REUTERS

Dead fish are seen floating on a polluted river in Hefei. Jianan Yu/REUTERS

A resident washes clothes in a polluted pond in Xiangfan. Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS

Labourers work to drain sewage water from a leaked sewage tank at a copper mine in Shanghang, Fujian province. Stringer China/REUTERS

Fishermen clean up oil at an oil spill site near Dalian Port, Liaoning province. Sheng Li/REUTERS


A boy swims in the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao. China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC/REUTERS

A journalist takes a sample of the red polluted water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang. China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC/REUTERS

A worker looks at a photographer from a door of a factory manufacturing screws and nuts next to a polluted river in Jiaxing. Stringer China/REUTERS

A fisherman fills his cupped palms with water from the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei. Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS

Fishermen row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province. Jianan Yu/REUTERS

A dead fish floats in water filled with blue-green algae at the East Lake in Wuhan. Darley Shen/REUTERS

A worker walks past coking kilns at a coking plant on the outskirts of Changzhi. Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS


A child drinks water near a stream in Fuyuan county. Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS

Dead fish are seen at a pond on the outskirts of Wuhan. Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS

Workers clean up floating garbage on the Yangtze Rive near the Three Gorges reservoir in Fengjie County of China's Chongqing municipality. China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC/REUTERS

Gnats, or small biting flies, gather on railings along the East Lake in Wuhan, Hubei province.. Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS

Fishermen walk through the muddy bottom of a polluted canal collecting fish in central Beijing. David Gray/REUTERS

A man sits atop a drain as he fishes at a polluted canal in central Beijing. David Gray/REUTERS

Pipes coming from a rare earth smelting plant spew polluted water into a vast tailings dam near Xinguang Village, located on the outskirts of the city of Baotou in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. David Gray/REUTERS
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