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Water environment not checked effectively in China
27/Aug/2006: China still faces a severe water environment situation as the trend of deterioration of water environment hasn't been checked effectively.
Total discharge of waste water reached 52.4 billion tons in 2005, a rise of 26 percent over 2000. Water pollution treatment tasks in major drainage areas during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period (2001-2005) are not fully fulfilled.
In the Haihe River, Liaohe River and Huaihe River valleys, only 70 percent of the tasks are fulfilled. Major tributary of the Yellow River, annually receives more than 600 million tons of waste water and 270,000 tons of chemical oxygen demand, which is nearly about four times of its environmental capacity.
278 of 661 Chinese cities have no sewage treatment plants. Some existing sewage treatment plants do not operate in full capacity for the lack of supporting pipe networks.
Some existing sewage treatment plants with complete pipe networks suspend operation from time to time due to the lack of reasonable charge collection policies and lack of operating funds.
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