Pollution can enter water directly, through both legal and illegal discharges from factories, for example, or imperfect water treatment plants. Spills and leaks from oil pipelines or hydraulic ...

The following photos show instances of water pollution around China dating from 2006 to the present. The red river in Wenzhou is just one example of the water pollution that has been running ...

Christian Storm wrote an earlier version of this story. The red river in Wenzhou is just one example of the water pollution that has been running rampant in China for years. More than half of ...