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China's Water Pollution



[|China's Cancer Villages video] This video is a perfect example as to how the water pollution in China has been affecting the communities who live in China. It shows that people are afraid to even eat the food they plant and harvest themselves. In the video, a woman who is a farmer, won't eat the rice she harvests each year. She instead sells it on the street. Also, in the video it was said that each of the 3,000+ people form the village, have known someone personally who has died from the cancers caused by the factories in the area.

[|Water Pollution is Alarming] This video shares how the pollution in the water has reached nearly half of the rivers and water sources. Many other sources of water have been deemed as polluted also. I had originally chosen this source because it helps to put in perspective how polluted the water is.

Artifacts [|Top Water Issues Spots] This interactive map allows you to see how badly the environment of China has become since the industrial age. It allows you to read about the history of the rivers, dams, desertification, and industrial pollution and how over the years these places have been changed. I thought it related to my analysis by showing how the pollution has traveled across the country.

[|China's water pollution] This tell how China doesn't have an adequate system to which it filters and cleans its water supplies. It can relate to my analysis because people in China don't have enough clean water sources anymore.

[|Pollution] This gives many interesting and informative facts on how so many people are drinking the affected water in the country. Also, it tells how polluted the water has become. The rate of which the water has become was the key point in why this was chosen to be used as an article.