Losses caused by water pollutants

Since the reform and opening up, China's economy has developed rapidly and the people's living standards have been improved.
However, environmental pollution, especially water pollution, has destroyed water quality
.

① There is more shortage of high-quality water sources, and the contradiction between supply and demand is increasingly tense;

②Water pollution has caused an increase in deaths and diseases, such as poisoning, cancer, and decreased immunity;

③ Damage to fishery, forcing reduction of fishery resources and even extinction of species;

④Sewage water irrigated farmland or stored in ponds or low-lying areas to cause soil pollution, seriously affecting groundwater;

⑤Destroy environmental sanitation, affect tourism, and accelerate the degradation and destruction of the ecological environment;

⑥Increase the load and operating expenses of water supply and water purification facilities, which will increase the cost of water treatment;

⑦Industrial water quality has declined, and the quality of produced products has dropped, causing huge industrial losses
.

The negative effects of water pollution on human health, agricultural production, fishery production, industrial production and the ecological environment will all be manifested as economic losses
.

The World Bank has estimated the losses caused by water pollution in China and concluded that the impact on human health is equivalent to an economic loss of about 4 billion U.
S.
dollars (about 30 billion yuan).
Water pollution causes environmental pollution, ecological damage and other public hazards.
, The consequences are very alarming, and its direct losses generally account for about 1.
5% of the gross national product
.