Underground Water in China's Contaminated

In 57 percent of monitoring sites the underground water across Chinese cities discovered to be polluted or awfully contaminated, the Economic Information Daily, a newspaper run by Xinhua News Agency, reported on Monday, citing figures from the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP).

The MEP statistics also suggest that 298 million rural residents do not have access to safe drinking water.

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In the first half of last year, of the seven main water systems in China, only the Yangtze and Pearl rivers had good water quality, and the Haihe River in north China was heavily polluted, with the others all moderately polluted, according to the MEP.

To address poor water quality, the MEP has decided to beef up protection of water sources.

The ministry told the Economic Information Daily that no construction projects will be allowed in water source regions unless they had set aside specific protection areas subject to the ministry's monitoring, or they had passed water quality examinations.

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Ma Jun, head of Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, said that drinking water sources, usually located in underdeveloped upstream regions, tended to be places of heavy industry, such as mining and petrochemical industries.

China recently unveiled the 2011-2015 guideline on fighting water pollution in which it stated the goal that 60 percent of the country's major rivers and lakes should be clean enough to be sources of drinking water supply by the end of 2015.

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