China's tremendous economic growth has not been all positive, especially from ecological point of view, with problems like air and water pollution. China's government has taken some serious steps to reduce extreme pollution levels, but things haven't changed for better, in fact most recent data showed that China's air and water pollution are increasing. It is because China's need for energy is constantly growing, and its main energy source is coal. Coal combustion releases many "dirty" particles into air causing air pollution, and China has also recently overtaken USA becoming the world's biggest CO2 emitter.
The latest study showed that only 38 percent of 585 cities surveyed recently registered air quality comparable to national health standards, down from about 45 percent in a 2005 study. Water pollution has also increased because healthy water sources have reduced by additional 7,24 % since 2005. A World Health Organization (WHO) report estimated in 2007 that diseases caused by air pollution kill 656,000 Chinese citizens each year, and polluted drinking water kills another 95,600. China has the highest annual incidence of premature deaths caused by air pollution in the world. There have been also trends of high miscarriage rates and lower IQ rates noticed among population.
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