Following the "Air Ten" (" Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan "), China's another major pollution prevention and control plan - "Water pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan" (hereinafter referred to as "water ten")
will be fully implemented. "First Financial (Weibo) Daily" reporter learned from the Ministry of Environmental Protection that the total investment is expected to exceed 2 trillion yuan of the draft plan has been submitted to The State
Council for consideration. The 2 trillion market feast is also about to open.
On June 4, at a press conference held by The State Council Information Office, Li Ganjie, Vice minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, said that the Ministry of Environmental Protection will promptly formulate and introduce
the "Water Ten" to effectively fight the major battle of water pollution prevention and control.
Grab the ends, take the middle
The "Water Ten" put forward specific requirements for the principles, objectives and tasks of water environment protection and governance, and the main goal is to speed up the improvement of water environment quality, ensure water
environment safety, and maintain the health of water ecosystems, an official of the Ministry of Environmental Protection told this reporter.
According to our reporter, the Ministry of Environmental Protection officially launched the "water ten" preparation last year. The Ministry of Environmental Protection officials told this reporter that the "water ten" was originally called the
"water plan", because it was changed to the "water ten" corresponding to the "atmospheric Ten" that had been introduced. The Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning under the Ministry of Environmental Protection is the leading
unit and main technical support unit of the "Water Ten" compilation group.
By the beginning of this year, the "Water Ten" preparation group had held a number of expert seminars and internal discussions of the preparation group, and sought the opinions of the relevant departments of the provinces (autonomous
regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and The State Council, as well as the departments, bureaux, agencies and units directly under the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
On February 13, the executive meeting of the Ministry of Environmental Protection discussed and adopted in principle the "Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (draft for examination)". In April and May this year, the compilation team led by Zhao Yingmin, Director of the Pollution Prevention Department of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, went to Beijing and Zhejiang Province to investigate the urban water treatment situation, and was very interested in the "five water co-treatment" project in Pujiang County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province.
"The situation of the national water environment is still very severe, and the number of water environment emergencies involving drinking water safety is still quite large, with more than a dozen cases every year in recent years and five more
in the first five months of this year." Li Ganjie said at a press conference of The State Council Information Office on June 4.
The monitoring results of the Ministry of Environmental Protection show that in recent years, the quality of surface water across the country, especially in the top ten river basins, has been improving. This year, the proportion of the top ten
river basins with better than class water quality is 71.7%. Class IV and V are 19.3%, and Class V is 9%, which is an improvement compared with 2012 and 2011. Compared with 2012, the proportion of better than class sections increased by
2.7 percentage points, and the proportion of bad V sections decreased by 1.2 percentage points. Compared with 2011, the degree of improvement is greater, the proportion of better than class section increased by 10.7 percentage points,
and the proportion of bad V class decreased by 4.7 percentage points.
