A recent string of serious pollution incidents across China pushed water quality challenges to the top of the national agenda for senior policymakers. The incidents — from chemical spills to algae blooms — also riveted attention on domestic and international studies describing the increasingly fragile condition of rivers, lakes and groundwater that sustain rural and urban China. Visiting scholars Yichao Wang (VS ‘06) and Bo Ren (VS ‘04 ) write in Beijing’s influential Caijing Magazine (Business and Finance Magazine) about recent water pollution incidents.

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