The water has strange colors in China
China's environmental pollution is causing many rivers to change to red, black or blue-brown, seriously affecting people's lives.
A reporter is collecting samples of contaminated and bloody red in the Jianhe River, which runs through Luoyang, Henan Province.(Photos taken on December 13, 2011)
Large blue algae clusters encircle the coast of Qingdao City, Shandong Province, appear due to water pollution.Although there are no poisons and bad impacts on water sources, they absorb a huge amount of air, which causes the animals and plants living in the water to be in short supply.The presence of algae makes sunlight unable to reach the water.Algae leave a stench when they drift to the coast.
The sewage pipe from a rare earth factory discharges contaminated water into a dam near Xinguang village in Baotou city, China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Many incurable diseases broke out in villages near "rare earths" in this city, while farmers' vegetables could not grow on contaminated soil, and cattle died massively.
A worker is processing oil in the oil spill area near Dalian port, in Liaoning province, July 2010.
Water in a river in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, east of China, suddenly turned red in late July with no known cause.
A man uses electric poles to catch fish at a river junction in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.
Comparing polluted water (left) is taken from a polluted stream in Kunming, Yunnan, with a bottle of ordinary mineral water.
Dead fish floating on lake water in Wuhan, Hubei province.This is one of the water sources affected by green algae.
An elderly man is exercising in the morning in Jilin Province.Far away are black smoke chimneys from buildings on the Songhua River.
Water quality is one of the alarming environmental problems in China, which directly affects people's lives.In the picture, a fisherman is wading in the middle of the blue water due to algae in Chaohu City, Anhui Province.
Water pipes discharge wastewater into the Yangtze River from a paper factory in Anqing, in Anhui Province.
Dead fish mass on the riverside polluted in Wuhan, Hubei.
Workers are handling oil leaks after a pipeline explosion in Qingdao, Shandong Province, in November 2013.
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