Why does Dongguan City charge residents for sewage treatment

Residents after the use of domestic water discharged into the municipal network, based on the requirements of environmental protection, sewage treatment plants to carry out sewage treatment to meet the discharge standards before discharging into the water body, so sewage charges. Based on the following:

1, in accordance with the State Council "Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution" requirements: "Existing urban sewage treatment facilities, to be adapted to local conditions for renovation, by the end of 2020 to meet the appropriate emission standards or recycling requirements, sensitive areas (key lakes, key reservoirs, near-shore sea catchment areas) urban sewage treatment facilities should be by the end of 2017 comprehensively reach Class A emission standards by the end of 2017."

2, the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, "on the development and adjustment of sewage treatment charges and other related issues of the notice" clearly put forward: "by the end of 2016, the municipal cities sewage treatment charges should be adjusted, in principle, per ton to the residents of not less than 0.95 yuan".