Xinhua Shijiazhuang, Feb. 20 (Xinhua Ma Shuping) from the Hebei Provincial Water Conservancy Department of the news, by the end of 2001
Hebei shortage of water totaled more than 7 billion cubic meters, making Hebei the country's most water-scarce province. The water shortage population has exceeded 40
00 million people, can not effectively irrigate more than 25 million mu of arable land, more serious is the plan of electricity, chemical
industrial, iron and steel, and part of the industrial and agricultural projects can not be newly built or expanded, has been a serious constraint on economic and social development.
According to a senior engineer from the Hebei Provincial Water Resources Department, some rivers in Hebei Province dried up again last year, and the dried-up rivers have
reached more than half of the province's total river length. Resource water shortage is also to the extreme. By the end of last year, the province's per capita was only 25
6.3 cubic meters, far below the 500 cubic meters per capita of extremely poor water
standard set by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. The volume of surface water and inbound water both decreased from 23.5 billion cubic meters and 9.98 billion cubic
meter in the 1950s to 12.9 billion cubic meters and 3 billion cubic meters, respectively, at the end of the 1990s, a reduction of 45.
1 percent and more than 70 percent. River into the sea is also decreasing year by year, in recent years the annual average of only 29.8 billion cubic meters, a reduction of
51%. Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Lu junction area of 50,000 square kilometers of the ground continues to subside, the formation of a "compound funnel", so
go on, will cause disastrous consequences.
Industrial and agricultural and domestic water consumption tends to increase, the contradiction between supply and demand is getting worse. The total amount of water used has risen from 4 billion cubic meters in the 1950s
to more than 23 billion cubic meters now. Urban water use has also increased more than 230 times, have
substantially exceeded the city's own water resources. Most cities have implemented long-distance cross-regional water transfer supply projects. Because of the lack of
water, 30 million mu of arable land has lost production, and 3.2 billion cubic meters of agricultural water has to be diverted to supply urban needs.
Water environment further deterioration. Ring Beijing and Tianjin water area of 6.6 million square kilometers, soil erosion area of 3.85 million
square kilometers, the annual sand loss of 132 million tons, Guanting Hall Reservoir 30% of the reservoir has been silted up. Lack of water leads to land
sanding very much, making Beijing frequent sandstorms. The province's land sandy area of more than 40 million mu. All kinds of environmental pollution
problems are getting more and more serious, and many rivers and small waterways have become sewage ditches for cities and industries. Sixty-two percent of the province's water surfaces are of V
class V or inferior V, and "all rivers are dry and all water is polluted". The soil
land and groundwater on both sides of the rivers have been polluted to varying degrees by the infiltration of industrial and domestic wastewater and irrigation. Some villages in Hebei have no drinkable water, people and animals have to
tens of kilometers away to get water, irrigation has to use sewage, harvested food and vegetables due to harmful substances can not be eaten.
Related people believe that the problem of water shortages in Hebei rely only on water conservation and Hebei itself, has been impossible to solve. Hebei surrounds Beijing
Tianjin, adjacent to Shanxi and other five provinces and regions, numerous rivers and other provinces and municipalities *** have, *** enjoy. The country to unify the management, regulation
planning, use of water resources in North China, before it is expected to make Hebei's water shortage situation has been transformed. Water to set projects, set development, not
Can no longer on the high water consumption projects. Hebei and the provinces and municipalities should coordinate their water policies, unify and strengthen the testing and supervision of water quality,
and resolutely ban polluting projects and "15 small" enterprises. The state should give due consideration to charging for agricultural water resources and
Developing a water resources plan for North China and speeding up the progress of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
China Water Resources News 2002-2-21, page 4
Guan Guangwa, a villager in Xigu Village, Beixiang Town, Yanhu District, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, looked at the clear water coming out of his own faucet and said, "We are finally drinking 'sweet water'." Previously, he had long suffered from bitter and salty water.
With Guan Guangwa about 200 kilometers away, Linfen City, Hongdong County, Zhao Town, Wang Kai Village, Lin Lianjie last year, said goodbye to the companion of many years of picking the water stretcher, the reason is that the home is installed on the water mains.
All these changes are thanks to the implementation of the rural drinking water safety project in Shanxi Province for many years. "From no water to water, from bitter water to sweet water, from picking water to tap water, the province's rural drinking water situation has been fundamentally changed." Pan Junfeng, director of the Shanxi Provincial Water Resources Department, said.
Pan Junfeng said at a recent meeting of the province's water conservancy work conference that in 2009 the province **** invested 1.38 billion yuan, more than 5,000 new drinking water projects, to solve the drinking water safety problems of 2.72 million rural people, the province's largest investment in rural drinking water, benefiting the largest number of people in a year.
According to the water conservancy department of Shanxi province census, as of September 2009, the province **** built more than 28,000 rural drinking water projects, benefiting more than 21 million people. The province's rural water household population reached 19,449,900 people, accounting for more than 80% of the province's total agricultural population.
Shanxi, located in North China, is a mountainous region with more than 80% of its land area, with insufficient precipitation and uneven spatial and temporal distribution. The province has nine droughts in ten years, and the per capita water resources is only 381 cubic meters, which is 17% of the national average and 2.2% of the world's average, and belongs to one of China's serious water shortage areas.
Because of insufficient water, farmers in some areas of Shanxi, especially those in mountainous areas, have long been relying on flat stretcher, pulling water carts and other tools to solve the problem of drinking water by shoulder and hand. In addition, affected by the hydrogeological conditions, many rural populations are also suffering from fluoride and arsenic overload, brackish water and other unsafe water quality problems.
Insufficient water, water guarantee rate and water quality does not meet the standard **** with the rural drinking water insecurity. According to the relevant departments of the 2005 census statistics, Shanxi Province, there are 10.92 million rural population in different degrees of drinking water safety problems. Guan Guangwa in the salt lake area, rural drinking water does not meet the standards of the population had once reached more than 300,000 people, while the region's rural population of only 430,000 people.
Solving the problem of drinking water for the rural population has become a major event in recent years for the Shanxi provincial party committee and government. From 2000, the province for ten consecutive years will be listed as the provincial government for the masses to do one of the practical things. 2009, the provincial party committee, the provincial government and further put forward, within two years to realize the province's rural drinking water safety full coverage.
Pan Junfeng said, in the central financial funds, with strong support, from 2006, Shanxi provincial finance to raise 300 million yuan a year for rural drinking water safety. In the four years since then, the province has ****solved the rural drinking water safety problem for 8.72 million people.
At present, Shanxi still has more than 5.8 million people with unsafe drinking water in rural areas. Pan Junfeng said Shanxi province is in the process of solving the problem.
Liaoning over-exploits groundwater by 400 million cubic meters a year, a serious water shortage
The reporter recently learned from the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress that Liaoning, a major industrial province, needs to exploit groundwater by 6.5 billion cubic meters annually to replenish the lack of surface water, which is over-exploited by 400 million cubic meters, a serious water shortage in the province.
Gong Shiping, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress, said that at present, the average amount of water resources in Liaoning is less than 34.2 billion cubic meters, and the per capita water resources possession is 811 cubic meters, which is less than 40% of the national average.
It is reported that a large portion of Liaoning's total water resources is polluted and unusable. In the province's six major rivers, in addition to the Yalu River, the Liao River, Hun River, Prince River and other five rivers water quality is more serious pollution. Monitoring of these rivers, 36 main stream sections show that more than 60% of the sections for the inferior five water quality, the main pollution indicators of ammonia nitrogen and chemical oxygen demand are seriously exceeded.
Information provided by the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress Environmental Resources Urban and Rural Construction Committee shows that in recent years, the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress has organized local people's congresses at all levels to coordinate with government departments in order to effectively curb such violations in response to the serious discharge of effluent from printing and dyeing enterprises in the city of Haicheng, the serious pollution of the Tieling River in Tieling, and the flow of effluent from some ore-dressing enterprises in Liaoyang City.
Gong Shiping said, at present, Liaoning air pollution in sulfur dioxide emissions more than double the environmental capacity, individual areas also appeared acid rain, Liaoning environmental protection situation is still very serious.
Jinan Times March 21, reporter Wei Wei Water is the source of life, no water there is no life, and the province can be developed and utilized only 4.8 billion cubic meters of water resources. Today, nearly 300 water conservancy personnel, volunteers came to Quancheng Square to carry out a large-scale love of water, water conservation publicity, to commemorate the "3.22 World Water Day".
The reporter learned that Shandong is one of the provinces with the most serious water shortage, with an average of 30.8 billion cubic meters of total water resources, while the amount of water resources that have been exploited has reached 26 billion cubic meters, leaving only 4.8 billion cubic meters of water resources available for people to develop. Considering the flood season floods that are difficult to utilize and the necessary water for ecological environment, the potential of water resources development and utilization in the province has been very small.
This year, China's commemoration of the "3.22 World Water Day" theme is "harmony between people and water". This morning, the provincial water resources department, the provincial Yellow River Bureau, the city water conservancy bureau, the district water affairs bureau of the staff, as well as the mountain construction engineering, mountain division of the volunteers came to Quancheng Square, to the passing public and pedestrians to publicize the "harmony of man and water", "water according to the law," the concept of water.
More than 80 volunteers from the environmental engineering department of Shandong University of Architecture and Engineering are publicizing World Water Day for the third time. This morning, they launched a "long march to visit the famous springs in Jinan" in Quancheng Square, bicycling to the major springs to investigate the water level and the protection of the springs, and to the nearby residents of the significance of "green environmental protection springs". At the same time, in their preparation of a hundred meters long scroll, many of the citizens on the scene in the above waving message, the reporter saw, some citizens wrote down "do not let the earth only our tears" such words.
This year is already 66-year-old An Shoucai old man volunteered to publicize water conservation spring for the 15th year. Today, he appeared again in Quan Cheng Square. Since 1981, he has paid attention to collecting information on water conservation, and has now collected a box full of them at home; since 1990, he has begun to take large cowhide envelopes full of information to publicize it to the public free of charge. He said that water conservation is not just a matter for the party and the government, but should be the responsibility of the whole society **** the same, he will, as always, publicize water conservation.
More than three hours of publicity is over, the public Wang Linxin told reporters: "Every day is 'World Water Day' how good!"
Jiangsu is about to enter a water-scarce province
From the just-established Institute of Water Conservation at Hohai University, Jiangsu Province is about to enter a water-scarce province.
Jiangsu is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Huaihe River, Taihu Lake, Hongze Lake and other large and small lakes throughout the province, but the water resources problem has been exposed, the southern region of water-quality type of water shortage is becoming more and more prominent, the north of Jiangsu local areas by the upper reaches of sewage leakage resulting in water shortages of water resources contradiction is even more serious, the study of water-saving technology appears to be very urgent. (Xinhua Jiangsu Channel)