In the New York Times, the latest in their Choking on Growth series:
Fuqing is one of the centers of a booming industry that over two decades has transformed this country into the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, and the fastest-growing supplier to the United States.
But that growth is threatened by the two most glaring environmental weaknesses in China: acute water shortages and water supplies contaminated by sewage, industrial waste and agricultural runoff that includes pesticides. The fish farms, in turn, are discharging wastewater that further pollutes the water supply. [Full text]
[Image: A fish farmer brought oysters to buyers in Yuxi, a town in Fuqing County, Fujian, via New York Times]