date:Apr 01, 2014
freshwater per day by 2015, compared with 660,000 cubic meters in 2011, according to a five year plan (the format most official solutions take in China) spanning 2011-2015.
The situation is perhaps worse on land, where large numbers of chemical plants and paper mills (many of them state owned) have been found to use high pressure wells to illegally dump their hazardous chemical waste underground, contaminating the ground water. Official data from across 118 cities now shows that about 64 perce