The World Bank, in a 2007 report titled The Cost of Pollution in China, labeled water pollution a “significant problem” in China’s rural areas, putting the number of premature deaths caused by water and air pollution at 750,000 per year.
L’informe de 2007 del Banc Mundial titulat The Cost of Pollution in China catalogava com a “problema significatiu” el grau de contaminació de l’aigua a les zones rurals i xifrava en 750.00 les morts prematures a l’any causades per la contaminació ambiental i de l’aigua.