9m residents of Beijing benefit from water project
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Nine million residents in Beijing are drinking water from the Yangtze River in the south, four months after the completion of the south-north water diversion project.
Beijing has received 180 million cubic meters via the middle route of the water diversion project, which brings it from the Danjiangkou Reservoir in the middle-upper reaches of the Hanjiang River, the largest tributary of the Yangtze, to Henan, Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin.
Roughly 76 percent of the water Beijing receives has been supplied to residents in the downtown area as well as the Daxing and Mentougou districts, alleviating water shortages for the city鈥檚 21 million residents.
The quality of tap water in the city, in Beijing鈥檚 southern areas in particular, has seen a remarkable improvement and the fall of the city鈥檚 underground water levels is slowing down, according to officials.
Test results of tap water quality all meet national standards for drinking water, they said. Beijing has carried out more than 10,000 tests through 161 water quality inspection sites in the tap water pipe network.
The supply-demand balance of water resources in Beijing has improved, but the city will still face water shortages for a long period, said Sun Guosheng, head of the office.
Beijing receives about 2 million cubic meters of water from Yangtze per day.
The gigantic south-to-north water diversion project has three routes, the east, middle and west routes transferring water from the lower, middle and upper reaches of the country鈥檚 longest river respectively. The first stages of the east and middle routes are operational.
Beijing consumes 3.6 billion cubic meters of water annually, but its water resource per capita is only one-eightieth of the world average.
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