China’s hottest tech giants – Alibaba, Xiaomi, and Baidu – are making a splash on a global scale. But even as they battle for market shares, they are also helping Chinese people fight against pollution with newly released tech products that monitor air, water, and food pollution. While the government struggles to keep the country’s airways clean, these companies are enabling ordinary Chinese citizens to take environmental health into their own hands.Increasingly, Chinese people are eating, breathing, and drinking pollution. Here are some sobering statistics:
Air pollution: In October 2014 air pollution was 20 times the recommended World Health Organization levels;
Water pollution: one-fourth of China’s drinking water contains unhealthy levels of bacteria; 70 percent of China’s rivers and lakes are unfit for human consumption
Soil pollution: 20 percent of the country’s soil is contaminated. According to the Wilson Center China Environment Forum’s Director, Jennifer Turner, “Hunan Province is both a major producer of nonferrous metals and rice. That’s not a good combination.”
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