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“Underground water in 57 percent of monitoring sites across Chinese cities have been found polluted or extremely polluted, the Economic Information Daily, a newspaper run by Xinhua News Agency, reported on Monday, quoting 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.
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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