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China’s Rural Pollution Problem

August 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

As the environment in China’s eastern cities stabilizes or sees marginal improvement, the focus of China’s anti-pollution efforts is shifting to the countryside. 
The problems of domestic, industrial, and agricultural wastes in rural areas are enormous:

Domestic wastes are largely untreated and responsible for a lack clean drinking water for hundreds of millions of rural residents. According [...]

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