8,000 projects to improve water quality
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CHINA launched nearly 8,000 water cleanup projects in the first half of 2017 at a projected total investment of 667.4 billion yuan (US$100 billion), the Ministry of Environmental Protection said yesterday.
The projects were devised as part of a 2015 action plan to treat and prevent water pollution, and covered 325 contaminated sites, the ministry said.
A total of 343 sites had been identified, meaning 95 percent had drawn up plans to bring water quality up to standard.
However, it noted some regions were still behind schedule to meet their 2017 goals.
Large amounts of China’s water have been rendered unusable as a result of industrial expansion, overmining and the uncontrolled use of pesticides and fertilizers.
With China desperate to increase supplies to guarantee future food and energy security, it promised in 2015 to make significant improvements in its major waterways and curb untreated wastewater from highly polluting sectors such as mining, steelmaking, textiles, printing and oil refining.
The ministry said this month that overall water quality had improved in the first half of the year, although some regions registered an increase in substandard samples over the period.
Of 2,100 sites where the water was considered unsuitable for even industrial or irrigation use, 44.1 percent had completed treatment projects in the first half, the ministry said, noting that the provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning and Anhui had fallen behind.
To protect rural water supplies, China identified 636,000 square kilometers of land to be made off limits to animal husbandry, and shut 213,000 livestock and poultry farms.
The ministry also said 809 household sewage treatment facilities were built in the first half, but Tianjin, Jiangxi, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Xinjiang, Hubei and Guangdong were behind schedule.
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