Three people were sentenced to jail for polluting Taihu Lake - two for dumping and one for committing fraud - the Gusu District People's Court in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, announced on Tuesday.

More than 20,000 metric tons of construction waste, household refuse and electronic waste was dumped into the lake after being transported from Shanghai by a construction company.

The dumping occurred in the vicinity of a drug addiction rehabilitation center on the lake's Xishan Island in May and June 2016.