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A man points to water and soil which turned red after being contaminated by industrial waste from a closed dye factory in 2014.
In April of 2015, $4, which outlined how China would improve its water quality by 2020. The plan has proven to be more difficult than the country anticipated, and they are having a hard time stopping the pollution.
The following photos show instances of water pollution around China dating from 2006 to the present.
Christian Storm wrote an earlier version of this story.