China has a problem providing clean drinking water to its citizens.
Everybody is talking about what an industrial juggernaut China is becoming... but there's a price to be paid.
BEIJING, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Water from a reservoir that serves as Beijing's fourth-biggest source of drinking water is unfit even for irrigation, state media reported on Tuesday, underlining the gravity of China's water pollution problem.Let's bear in mind that this is a nation that usually underplays any news that makes them look bad, so this problem is likely much worse than what they're saying.
The official Xinhua news agency cited a report by the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau as saying that water in the Guanting reservoir fell short of standards for level five on the country's scale of water quality.
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