蒋高明：《中国生态文明建设》（中英对照）连载之七：向环境污染宣战

2.1.2环境污染比比皆是

　　2.1.2Environmental pollution is everywhere

　　改革开放以来，中国经济高速发展，取得了举世瞩目的成就。然而，由于发展方式不合理，造成了资源大量消耗，环境污染加剧，自然生态破坏严重。伴随着发展而来的环境污染和生态破坏，已经成为当前中国面临的严峻问题。

　　Changes in my homeland epitomize China’s changes in the past 30 years or so. Since the reform and opening up, China has made remarkable achievements in economic development. However, an irrational growth mode has resulted in massive consumption of natural resources, aggravating environmental pollution and brought about serious ecological damage. Environmental pollution and ecological deterioration arising from development have become a severe problem for current China.

（1）水污染

　　（1）Water pollution

　　先来说说水污染。上面提到的捧起来就能喝的河水，在中国北方几乎绝迹了。取而代之的是又黑又臭的死寂的河流。中国已查明的各类源头废水排放总量达2092.8亿吨，相当于每个中国人每年要与155吨废水为伴!如此大规模的废水排放，造成了中国内陆七大水系[1]，近一半的河段遭受严重污染，86%的城市河段水质普遍超标。

　　Let’s begin with water pollution. Rivers like the aforementioned river providing drinking water for my hometown have almost disappeared in northern China, and been replaced by muddy, smelly and stagnant rivers. The total amount of identified wastewater discharge from all sources has reached 209.28 billion tons a year, namely 155 tons for each Chinese. Such a large scale wastewater discharge has caused serious pollution to half reaches of the seven major water systems in inland China. The water quality of 86% of urban rivers is generally well below required standards.