The purpose of this report is to highlight examples of five companies operating in China by illustrating the approaches they have adopted to address environmental problems. The report focuses on water pollution within China's challenging business landscape.

Following 2 earlier reports concerning the IT industry heavy metal pollution, the attention by various stakeholders including consumers finally urged the remaining eight brands to break their silence and respond in some form.

With IT brand companies responses growing from 8 to 21, a 2nd round of communications was made based on initial responses. Reactions further diversified with some giving positive replies, while 8 European, American, Japanese, Korean & Chinese companies did not respond at all.