Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection on Thursday (4 May), said, "2014 China Environmental Bulletin" Data shows that nearly two-thirds and one-third of the groundwater surface water should not be in direct contact with humans.
China is to "pollution declaration of war", trying to reverse some of the environmental damage caused during the past 30 years of rapid economic growth. One of the biggest and most expensive challenge is processing water pollution.
China will be divided into six water supply, 968 MEP monitoring of surface water, only 3.4 percent last year to the highest standards, "the first stage."
Environmental Protection Department in its annual report that only 63.1% of monitoring locations to achieve the third level above humanity available, the rest is not completely unusable, is only suitable for industrial water or irrigation water.
Water quality, China 423 major rivers, 62 lakes focus (reservoir) of 968 state-controlled surface water monitoring sections (points), and to carry out water quality monitoring, Ⅳ-Ⅴ water quality worse than Grade Ⅴ cross-section and were as high as 27.7% and 9.2%, that is nearly 40 percent reach drinking water standards, also suitable for aquaculture and swimming.
In April this year, China vowed to 2020, the country's seven major river basin water quality improvement (up to or better than Class Ⅲ) ratio to more than 70%, more than 93 percent of urban drinking water.
China also said that before the end of 2016, to ban oil refining and paper factories pollute the water environment.
