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60 percent of China's drinking water too polluted to drink; this is where many of your herbs, protein powders and superfoods are grown
Our products Water quality tests conducted in 203 cities throughout China revealed exceptionally high levels of contaminants, rendering the water either "relatively poor" or "very poor" on the safety scale. Water in the "relatively poor" category can be safely drunk as long as it undergoes pretreatment, while "very poor" water cannot be used for drinking water under any circumstances.
According to the report, the vast majority of China's groundwater falls into either of these two categories, meaning only a very small percentage of it is actually pure at the source. It is no wonder then, with its rapid industrialization and gradual takeover of American industry, that China's economic successes have led to massive environmental pollution.
Besides the cities evaluated, authorities also monitored water in several thousand different rural areas, many of which were also polluted. Overall, 43.9 percent of monitored sites in both cities and rural areas were found to be "relatively poor," while nearly 16 percent tested as "very poor." And while 647 sites have seen water quality improvements since 2012, 754 others became worse.
"According to China's underground water standards, water of relatively poor quality can only be used for drinking after proper treatment," reads an official article from the Chinese news source Xinhua. "Water of very poor quality cannot be used as a source of drinking water."
