60% of China’s rivers are seriously polluted; 28% of them are judged to be “completely useless”; 20% of drinking water fails to meet minimum standards; almost every one of China’s fresh water lakes is heavily polluted by agricultural and detergent run-off, leading to massive algal blooms; 80% of discharges to sea are illegal, with huge “dead zones” stretching up and down the coast; at least 10 million hectares of land have been seriously contaminated by the run-off of toxic chemicals and heavy metals...
and what's being done to try and improve it. I get the impression that from necessity China could well take a lead on environmental technologies as time goes on. But as Porritt points out with climate change as context sorting out these problems won't be easy.
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