Dam Construction and Management in China  
Flood Control,Drought Relief and Disaster Mitigation in China  
International Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Rivers Between China and Its Neighbouring Countries  
Irrigation and Drainage in China  
Rural Water Supply in China  
Small Hydropower Development and Management in China  
Soil and Water Conservation in China  
Water Policies,Laws and regulations in China  
Water Resources in China  
Water Resources Management and Protection in China  
Water Science and Technology in China  

Current Location:Homepage
Water diversion to improve Beijing's water quality: official
  2014-10-22 10:47  

Water from Beijing's taps later this month will be much cleaner than currently thanks to China's south-to-north water diversion project, an official said Monday.

Sun Guosheng, director of the project's construction commission office in Beijing, told Xinhua that water from the south will have much less hard mineral sediment, a problem that has haunted Beijing residents for years.

"Beijing's water sources, mainly from underground, contain too much incrustation scale such as calcium and magnesian ion, posing potential health hazards," Sun said. "With the new water, people's life quality will be improved," he said.

The middle route of China's south-to-north water diversion project will see a massive 9.5 billion cubic meters of water per year pumped through canals and pipes from the Danjiangkou reservoir in central Hubei Province to the northern provinces of Henan and Hebei and to Beijing.

The water transfer project was conceived by former Chairman Mao Zedong in 1952. The State Council approved the ambitious project in December 2002 after debate lasting nearly half a century.

 

(Source: Xinhua News)




责编:
相关内容