中国在新疆地区不断发展的能源、制造和农业活动正在造成更深远的影响，因为就像汉族核心地区的河流一样，这些活动排放的有毒化学品和化肥污染了区域跨国河流的河水质量。
China’s energy, manufacturing, and agricultural activities in sprawling Xinjiang are having an even greater impact, as they contaminate the waters of the region’s transnational rivers with hazardous chemicals and fertilizers, just as China has done to the rivers in its Han heartland.