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Christian Als
/ The River Runs Black
The River Runs Black
Project Date:
May 04. 2006 --> May 30. 2006
May 04. 2006 --> May 30. 2006
This body of work is part 1 of my Final Project from DJH - shot in China in May 2006:
China has only 7 percent of the world's water reserves, but breakneck economic growth over the past two decades has increased pollution and made clean water supplies even scarcer. According to a local NGO in Jilin City, more than 200 factories empties untreated wastewater directly into the Songhua River. 300 million Chinese – equivalent to the population of the United States – no longer have access to clean drinking water. People in many parts of rural China now regard their drinking water as little better than liquid poison.
China has only 7 percent of the world's water reserves, but breakneck economic growth over the past two decades has increased pollution and made clean water supplies even scarcer. According to a local NGO in Jilin City, more than 200 factories empties untreated wastewater directly into the Songhua River. 300 million Chinese – equivalent to the population of the United States – no longer have access to clean drinking water. People in many parts of rural China now regard their drinking water as little better than liquid poison.
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