Water Pollution

The chickens from China’s decades-long custom of turning a blind eye to the damage inflicted on its environment in return for developing an economic powerhouse are finally coming home to roost as an increasingly-agitated populace demands action from its leaders. With suffocating smog in Beijing and other major cities still making headlines around the world, renewed focus is now being turned on China’s deplorable fresh water conditions as the government scrambles to show it is in control by issuing reams of new standards on industrial pollution and promising to punish violators.

China's Shandong province has finished 324 pollution-prevention projects along the eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Program.

Uniqlo, Asia’s biggest global fashion brand and its parent company Fast Retailing Group, have committed to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout its entire global supply chain and products by 2020, in response to Greenpeace’s global Detox campaign.

Read Full Story A new report from Greenpeace on how clothing manufacturing facilities are filling wastewater systems in China with harmful chemicals is the latest effort to highlight the clothing industry's poor environmental track record, according to an in-depth report from Greenbiz.com’s Sustainable Business News. The pollution is coming from textile manufacturing plants in China that are part of the supply chain for Levi's, GAP and Calvin Klein, among many others in the clothing industry.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has committed a loan of USD250 to rehabilitate the fifth largest freshwater lake in China.