中国投资亿元治理水污染

The Chinese government has decided to invest largely in developing technologies to treat water pollution, according to the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) Monday.

The State Council, or the cabinet, has approved three big state-funded programs for the research and development of such technologies, said Zhao Yingmin, a SEPA official.

The investment will be hundreds of million yuan, he said.

The programs, to last between 2008 and 2020, will support researches of technologies to remedy pollution of rivers, lakes, drinking water and those to monitor the water body environment.

The SEPA said earlier that 26 percent of surface water in China is totally unusable, 62 percent is unsuitable for fish and 90 percent of the rivers running through cities are polluted.

the latest survey showed that 32.3 percent of Chinese were unsatisfied with the local water environment while 20 percent were not content with the sanitation of drinking water in public places.

The survey, titled "2007 environmental protection and people's livelihood index," covered 9,011 respondents from 29 provinces and autonomous regions.

A project under the program will be carried out at Taihu Lake in the eastern Jiangsu Province. It had suffered a serious blue-green algae outbreak in summer 2007, threatening the tap water supply of more than 1 million residents in the lakeside city of Wuxi.

"The local environment authority will actively cooperate with scientists to help improve the water quality of the lake," said Shi Zhenhua, head of the provincial environmental department.

据国家环保局(SEPA) 周一报道中国政府已决定大力投资发展技术治理水污染.
国家环保局官员Zhao Yingmin说国务院已批准了三个大型的国家资助计划来研究和发展此类技术.投资将达数亿元,他说.
此项计划从2008年持续到2020年,将致力于治理河流,湖泊和饮用水污染技术的研究并监控水体环境.
国家环保局早就公布在中国26%的地表水完全无法使用,62%不适用于鱼类,流经各城市河流的90%遭到污染.
最近一项调查显示32.3%的中国人对当地的水环境表示不满意,而20%不满于公共场所的饮用水卫生设备.
此项调查即”2007环保与人居指数”,涵盖了来自29个省和自治区的9011个响应者.
此计划下的一项工程将在江苏省东部的太湖实施. 该湖在2007年夏季遭到了蓝绿藻的严重侵害, 威胁着湖畔城市-无锡一百多万居民的自来水供应.
该省环境部门负责人Shi Zhenhua说: "地方环境当局将积极配合科学家帮助提高太湖水质. "