Move Over, Smog: China’s Water Pollution Off the Charts (LinkAsia: 3/1/13)

A side effect of rapid industrialization and few regulations, China’s rivers are often treated as little more than sewers. But as LinkAsia contributor Mark Dreyer reports, an online campaign to clean up the country’s water is gathering steam. Watch more at . IMAGE: A worker pumps blue-green algae into a treatment reservoir at Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province: REUTERS/Stringer