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Economic prosperity often brings with it enviromental destruction. It certainly seems to do so in China.
A fisherman jumps from his boat to the bank after the morning fishing at a polluted river in Hefei. Jianan Yu/REUTERS
Labourers work to drain sewage water from a leaked sewage tank at a copper mine in Shanghang, Fujian province. Stringer China/REUTERS
A woman walks on a bridge over a polluted river at a suburban area of Wenzhou, in Zhejiang province February 18, 2011. China is now the world's second largest economy, but hundreds of millions of its people still rely on fouled water that will cost billions of dollars to clean. Growing cities, overuse of fertilisers, and factories that heedlessly dump wastewater have degraded China's water supplies to the extent that half the nation's rivers and lakes are severely polluted. Carlos Barria/REUTERS
A boy swims in the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao. China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC/REUTERS
A journalist takes a sample of the red polluted water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang. China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC/REUTERS
A worker looks at a photographer from a door of a factory manufacturing screws and nuts next to a polluted river in Jiaxing. Stringer China/REUTERS
A fisherman fills his cupped palms with water from the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei. Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS
A dead fish floats in water filled with blue-green algae at the East Lake in Wuhan. Darley Shen/REUTERS
A worker walks past coking kilns at a coking plant on the outskirts of Changzhi. Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS
A boy sits in a pile of algae as his friend runs at a beach in Qingdao, Shandong province in this July 6, 2008 file photo. Dumping iron dust in the seas or placing smoke and mirrors in the sky to dim the sun could help a world struggling to curb global warming, according to backers of extreme technologies. Nir Elias/REUTERS
Workers clean up floating garbage on the Yangtze Rive near the Three Gorges reservoir in Fengjie County of China's Chongqing municipality. China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC/REUTERS
Gnats, or small biting flies, gather on railings along the East Lake in Wuhan, Hubei province.. Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS
Fishermen walk through the muddy bottom of a polluted canal collecting fish in central Beijing. David Gray/REUTERS
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