Environment: Clean water pledge
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-09-05 14:14 One hundred and sixty million
Chinese in rural areas will get clean and safe drinking water in the next five
years. And all rural people will be provided with safe potable water funded by
the central government by 2015, Minister of Water Resources Wang Shucheng said
yesterday.
Currently, Wang said, 312 million villages are still facing
water shortages or unsafe water contaminated by fluorine, arsenic, high levels
of salt or other organic or industrial pollutants.
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