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China鈥檚 usage efficiency rises

China鈥檚 water-use efficiency has reached the global average after years of progress, a Ministry of Water Resources official said.

The water use per 10,000 yuan (US$1,533) of GDP and the water use per 10,000 yuan of industrial value-added stood at 60.8 and 38.4 cubic meters, respectively, in 2019, down 24 percent and 28 percent from that in 2015, MWR data shows.

Meanwhile, the effective utilization coefficient of farmland water irrigation rose from 0.536 in 2015 to 0.559 in 2019.

鈥淐hina鈥檚 three main water-saving indexes have all hit the goal of 2020 set by the national water-saving campaign. China鈥檚 water-use efficiency, as a whole, has reached the global average level,鈥 Xu Wenhai, director of MWR鈥檚 National Office of Water Conservation, said yesterday.


 

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