In fact, water pollution in china is at least as bad- so serve that it has been proven to cause gastrointestinal and other types of cancer in some villages "cancer villages" have been around since the nineties, the government only recently recognized their presence. Many times in these cases, the pollution is caused by chemical dumping from nearby companies

Dumping of industrial chemicals, agricultural waste, and urban waste water had contaminated China's water resources such as over half of all rivers in the country are unsafe for human contact. About 70 percent of the water pollution nationwide comes from agriculture, particularly runoff from fertilizers, pesticides, and animal waste. The presence of heavy metals in seafood and rife has become increasingly common, passing in water contamination to the food supply. At the same time, while the most common water use comes from the agricultural industry in rural areas, poor households in the same areas find themselves increasingly disadvantage when it comes to securing water. For these households, clean water has become progressively scarcer.

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