Yellow River China 5,464km
Longest river in China, second longest river in Asia after the Yangtze
Gets its name from the yellow sediment, loess, that its water is filled with
The birthplace of ancient Chinese civilisation
189 million people live in the Yellow River
basin alone
EFFECTS OF POLLUTION
China’s 2017 State of Ecology and Environment Report reported that 37.4% of the river system water was unusable for agriculture or for drinking Approximately 4.4 billlion tonnes of wastewater flowed into the Yellow River in 2015
POLLUTION: HOW & WHO
• A disposal site for toxic waste with more than 4 billion tonnes of untreated wastewater dumped into it every year
• Due to the large area that the river flows through, agricultural waste from farms and industrial waste from heavy industries along its course are even harder to eradicate