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| Investment Aimed at New Water Treatments |
| The Chinese government has decided to invest largely in developing technologies to treat water pollution, according to the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) Monday. The State Council, or the cabinet, has approved three big state-funded programs for the research and development of such technologies, said Zhao Yingmin, a SEPA official. The investment will be hundreds of million yuan, he said. The programs, to last between 2008 and 2020, will support research into technologies to remedy the pollution of water and to monitor the water environment. The SEPA said earlier that 26 percent of China's surface water is totally unusable, 62 percent is unsuitable for fish and 90 percent of the rivers running through cities are polluted. The latest survey showed that 32.3 percent of Chinese were unsatisfied with the local water environment while 20 percent were not content with the sanitation of drinking water in public places. The survey, titled "2007 environmental protection and people's livelihood index," covered 9,011 respondents from 29 provincial areas. A project under the program will be carried out at Taihu Lake in the eastern Jiangsu Province. It suffered a serious blue-green algae outbreak in summer 2007. "The local environment authority will actively cooperate with scientists to help improve the water quality of the lake," said Shi Zhenhua, head of the provincial environmental department. (Xinhua News Agency January 15, 2008) |
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