L’informe de 2007 del Banc Mundial titulat The Cost of Pollution in China catalogava com a “problema significatiu” el grau de contaminació de l’aigua a les zones rurals i xifrava en 750.00 les morts prematures a l’any causades per la contaminació ambiental i de l’aigua.
The World Bank, in a 2007 report titled The Cost of Pollution in China, labeled water pollution a “significant problem” in China’s rural areas, putting the number of premature deaths caused by water and air pollution at 750,000 per year.