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China Green Leap Forwardby Christina Larson - The Washington Monthly October 08, 2007 China is on its way to becoming not only the world's largest economy, but also its largest polluter. Of the world's twenty most polluted cities, sixteen are in China. Ninety percent of the country's cities have contaminated groundwater. The World Bank predicts that in the next fifteen years, China's shortage of clean water will create 30 million "environmental refugees."
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