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China as a country with rapid economic growth, becoming one of the world’s attention on environmental problems. In fulfilling the needs of its people with large number and rapid growth of the industry sector, China provides substantial contribution towards environmental damage. Air pollution is a problem in China. China 's economic growth is pretty awesome, but not many people outside of China know the negative effects of economic growth. This matter emerged because of several reasons: One of them is air pollution. From about 20 cities in Asia having dirty air, around eleven cities in China namely Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Harbin, Jinan, Shanghai, Shenyang, Tianjin, Wuhan and Xi 'an. China 's economic growth is very
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China pollution that has passed through the area of jurisdiction Japan brought the threat to various things, especially to human security. In Japan, China 's environmental pollution is an important issue in the context of human security because it gives a significant threat to economic security, environmental security, food security and health security. Root causes of poor air quality in China due to heavy reliance on the needs of low-quality coal, and relatively high sulfur. Expert on regional development of China, Guan Lianji, said about the conditions in severe pollution caused by three main factors: First, heavy industry emissions; secondly, the use of coal as the primary fuel; and third, geographical and climatic conditions. Heavy industry emissions produced by industrial factories that paying less attention the surrounding environment issues. Industrial wastes such as mercury, benzene, etc. disposed to nature without being filtered first. China has polluted water. According to SEPA, China experienced water pollution case every two or three days. Factories dump liquid waste into rivers and lakes without being processed first. In 2006, there are 30 billion tons of wastewater discharged into the Yangtze river. This makes the Yangtze river severely polluted and unfit for
DeekshithKumar Thadishetti Professor mankerian LS 690 July 31 2015 Climate change is one of the global issue that requires multiperspective approach. One of the key cause of climate change is air pollution. Air pollution occurs as a result of release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. There are two key sources of air pollution that should be targeted if the air pollution is to be reduced. The first source is the industrial stationay sources, which include electric power facilities.
The fumes from the factories cause the atmosphere to be heavy with poisonous chemicals. China is still not a full democracy; however, their political positions and enforcement has improved drastically from previous years. While China does flourish and has massive amounts of wealth, it is still subject to the mentality that the country who flourishes the most (presumably the United States), others must suffer under
More importantly there are many health risks in polluted cities. One of the cons of this article is that the author took the number 1 most polluted city and state in America so while the number could be attributed to pre-conceived notions or ideas it would make the theory one-sided. The least polluted state would have not been a great representation either but some city or state right in the middle of the spectrum. Another con is the air pollution in a reason for cancer and other diseases. I would have to question that because of seasonal changes and other environments as far as oceans, lakes that may carry viruses as well.
In addition, the pollution spread into the water as well, all the waste within the factory had to be removed. Instead of properly disposing of the waste, it was dumped in the rivers. By doing this it contaminated the river, causing people to become ill. “As countries industrialized, they also urbanized. This was a result of people moving to cities in large numbers in order to gain factory jobs” (Document 6).
In another effort to improve human life New Delhi, India suffers from a similar problem in present day called smog. Cars,power plants and everyday life has put them into a situation where they are forced to wear masks and put air purifiers Into their own homes. The level of air pollution is pm 2.5 in which
Even in water-rich regions of China and reduce pollution clean and available water supply. It is estimated that currently polluting the whole 70% of China's rivers and lakes, groundwater has been polluted, half of Chinese cities and Chinese one-third of land affected by acid rain. In order to resolve the uneven distribution, he project such as South-to-North water diversion has been used. The advantages of this project lies in the water you want to transfer more water supply coverage is available, can be conveyed by gravity water of good quality. The project will alleviate the water crisis in North China an important and basic
“The Filth They Breathe in China,” by Michael Auslin reflects on what is happening to the air and water in China. This article describes the air pollution and why it is happening. It tells us what this is doing to our health and what scientist are saying. China 's air pollution has had great deal of problems and that the united states should step in to help generate better lives.
Some cities in china have everyone wear gas masks when they go outside. That 's just tragic! Can you imagine getting lung cancer for standing outside for 10 minutes? Cars can release 2 different kinds of pollution. There is primary pollution that goes straight into the air to pollute it and secondary pollution.
The effects on people’s health is that air pollution can cause stroke, heart diseases, lung cancer or asthma. A mother of two boys said “On poor air quality days when my family has to breathe particles and ozone smog, my kids’ asthma gets worse. They cough and even have asthma attacks.” This proves that the air in China is so
Industrial and agricultural wastes are the most common factors. These factors cause imbalance in the water leading to death of some species. Water pollution in China is such an issue, to the point that the World Bank cautioned of “catastrophic consequences for the future generation. "(Facts and Details). According to the World Bank two third of China 's population use water contaminated by human and industrial wastes and half of them use Hazardous drinking water (Facts and Details).
According to BBC News (2016), air pollution in Beijing is always in unhealthy stage. Based on 2008 to 2015, Beijing had about 49 out of 100 percent was in unhealthy stage, 14 out of 100 percent was in very unhealthy stage, and 4 out of 100 percent was in hazardous stage. Staying in a bad air or water pollution country is very tough for life. Recent research has shown that there have 4,400 people killed in pollution per day. Sometimes, the school would cancel the class because of air pollution.
In the past ten years, China has created dozens of polluted megacities. The polluted air has endangered the millions of inhabitants in China's overpopulated cities. There are many aspects of the environment that have been polluted or destroyed. The most important one of these is the water in China. China is “polluting the little bit of water they have left” (The Economist).
As of November of 2017, Delhi, India, was the most polluted city on the planet. In 2015, nine million people died from pollution, and in India alone, two and a half million people died. The World Health Organization stated that air pollution will continue to harm and kill many people around the world, and of course India, for many years, with poorer countries being affected the most (Irfan).
Compared to the rural river water, and urban river water was polluted more seriously, urbanization and urban activities had a significant negative impact on the river water quality (Ouyang, et al., 2006 .).Additionally the rapid urbanization caused a series of changes to the river systems and brought about water degradation in the tuna region in china (Deng, et al., 2015). A practical feature of the urbanization process, including the release of domestic sewage and others in water resources causes changes that may impair the
The first reason is because it is water used by over 13 million inhabitants in Cairo, as well as, other cities. The second reason is that, the Nile is the longest river in the world, flowing northward from its source in Tanzania to its outlet in the Mediterranean Sea, a distance of 6695 km. The Nile water source is tainted by pesticides, sewage, nutrients, and heavy metals. One of the most important causes of Nile contamination is discharging of industrial facilities (Mohamed et al., 1998). Factory waste contains heavy metals such as, Zinc (Zn), Cadmium (Cd), Lead (Pb) and Copper (Cu), which cause toxicity.