While China is considered to be one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the world, the beautiful country also has a dark side where pollution runs free and smog covers entire cities. In the shocking water pollution pics below you can see how everyday people in China have to survive with the severe pollution which in some cases is literally all around them. This clearly needs to change, the sooner the better.
1. A boy swims in Algae-filled water, Qingdao ,Shandong
2. A girl is walking through a smog in Beijing, where small-particle pollution is 40 times over international safety standard
3. Taking a picture with the fake Hong Kong sky line for tourists
4. A worker tries to clean dead fish from a lake in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province
5. A child is drinking water from a stream in Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province
6. Worker doing his best to clean oil from water, Dalian, Liaoning
7. A Journalist takes a polluted water sample from the red waters of Jianhe River
8. In Hefei, Anhui Province Fisherman row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake
9. Child swims in a polluted reservoir, Pingba
10. The building in Beijing surrounded by the smog
11. Workers are trying to drain sewage water from leaking sewage tank. Shanghang, Fujian
12. A boy is trying his best to avoid floating rubbish on a flooded street in Shantou, Guangdong Province
13. Pollution from a factory just 100km east of Beijing, this is in Yutian
14. A women is collecting plastic bottles near a polluted river with reddish dye
15. Dead fish in a water fill with Bluish Algae, east lake, Wuhan
16. A factory pipe discharging waste water into Yangtze River
17. Workers clean up floating rubbish on the Yangtze river
18. A sad look at the Great Wall Of China
19. A heavily polluted river in Jiaxing, Zhejiang
20. A child jumps over trash in his village, Jiaxing
Source: Boredpanda
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