Horrific pictures of pollution in China

October 4, 2009 in New York hosted the 30th annual awards ceremony Eugene Smith Fund. Lu Guangyu of the People's Republic won the grand $ 30,000 for his documentary project "Pollution in China." Lu Guangyu - freelance photographer, which began operations in 1980 as an amateur photographer. He was a factory worker, and later opened his own photo studio and an advertising agency. Lu Guangyu interested in social documentary photography. At the center of his work - the ordinary people of the simple society and social problems. Many of the awards, which received the Lu Guangyu, was for his work on the social problems of Chinese society: "Gold Rush in the West," "Little Coal Pit", "Village of HIV", "Grand Canal" and others.

Today we present some of the works of Lu Guangyu, where you can see the appalling pollution in China and their implications ...





Tall chimneys spew smoke into the sky gold color:



Chemical waste thrown on shore of the Yellow River:



Only one wall separates the village from the steel plant. The villagers have become accustomed to, and be able to "iron" rain:



Industrial waste flowing into the river Kiantang:



Scrap steel plant, the current in the river Aniang:



Lake, littered solid waste. Guangdong Province:



Residents are protected from toxic fumes and industrial dust priventivnymi measures:



A huge number of sewer pipes, removes wastes billion people in the Yellow Sea:



A large number of sewage plants and factories along the banks of the Yangtze River enters the river:



Here is the power in Inner Mongolia, powered by coal:



Jiangsu Province. Municipal sewage treatment plant can not cope with cleaning up contaminated industrial water. Trumpet with sewage gushes out of the Yangtze River:



Contaminated soil from the industry of the Yangtze River:



Liquid wastes stemming from the industrial region of Inner Mongolia to the Yellow River:



A large number of chemical waste water enters the Yangtze River from Zhenjiang Titanium plant every day:



Wastewater flows directly into the Yangtze River near the town of Haymen:



Ironworks Shesyan County of Hebei Province is a strong source of pollution, which greatly affects the health of local residents. The territory of the plant is constantly expanding:



In the village Longmen Shaanxi rapidly evolving industry, causing great damage to the environment:



In the coastal area of ​​Jiangsu Province is located more than 100 chemical plants. Part of the factory wastewater directly discharged into the sea, the other part is particularly dirty water - five "temporary lakes of dirty water." Twice a month during high tide, water from these lakes is carried away into the sea:



Chemical plant Hukou County, Jiangxi Province without permission of the authorities of the dammed Yangtze River to expand its territory:



In the industrial area zichang county of Anhui Province from different chemical enterprises in the Yangtze River water is discharged in different colors: red, yellow, black, gray, etc. June 18, 2009:



Shanxi Province - one of the most disadvantaged in terms of the environmental area in China. She crouches on the greatest number of congenital malformations. Pictured farming family who adopted 17 children with birth defects:



Shepherd near the Yellow River covers his nose from the stench:



15-year-old boy from the province of Gansu. He left school after second grade and, together with his parents came to work in the province of Heilongjiang. Working in unhygienic conditions, on the day he earns 16 yuan ($ 2, 2):



Farmers husband and wife, who had just returned to my room after work in the lime mine. Industrial area Heylunguy Inner Mongolia:



The workers, most of them migrants from depressed regions, inhaling too much dust and sick in 1-2 years:



Gao's wife from the village Zhaozhang Uonshuna (Henan Province) died of cancer. Now he lives in poverty:



Each year, many children in the province Shanksi remain without parents:



A small village in Hebei goose is formed as a result of severe pollution, the so-called "cancer village." Every year there die of cancer more than 20 people:



4-year-old girl with her grandfather came to the grave of his mother, who died at age 22 from cancer.

Source:
www.chinahush.com



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