China: More Than One Quarter of Yangtze Water Undrinkable

Reuters: More than one quarter of the water in the Yangtze River is so polluted it cannot be treated to make it drinkable, Xinhua news agency said on Monday. A new report by the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission showed that 27.5 percent of water tested along China's longest river was seriously polluted and could not be treated to make it potable, compared with less than 20 percent in 1998, Xinhua said. The remaining 72.5 percent of water quality tests conducted along the ...Link