Water Pollution: It Affects More Than Just Your Tea

By Caroline Wolcott, Lena Dufresne, Anna Walters, and Graham Robbins

Contaminated baby formula, water contaminated by sewage, and unsafe swimming conditions are frightening realities in China. These issues span over numerous aspects of everyday life including  people’s eating habits, health, and lifestyle. A large percentage of this contamination can be attributed to many years of uncontrolled industrial pollution, seeing as though industry is a large majority of the Chinese economy.

Three Gorges Dam A woman overlooks the polluted Yangtze River. Courtesy: Getty Images

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