China to spend $330 billion to fight water pollution -paper

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(Reuters) - China plans to spend 2 trillion yuan, or $330 billion, on an action plan to tackle pollution of its scarce water resources, state media said on Tuesday.

China has a fifth of the world's population but just 7 percent of its water resources, and the situation is especially precarious in its parched north, where some regions have less water per capita than the Middle East.

The plan is still being finalized but the budget has been set, exceeding the 1.7 trillion yuan ($277 billion) China plans to spend battling its more-publicized air pollution crisis, the China Securities Journal reported, citing the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

It will aim to improve the quality of China's water by 30 to 50 percent, the paper said, through investments in technologies such as waste water treatment, recycling and membrane technology.

The paper did not say how the funds would be raised, when the plan would take effect, or what timeframe was visualized, however.

Groundwater resources are heavily polluted, threatening access to drinking water, Environment Minister Zhai Qing told a news conference in the capital, Beijing, last week.
According to government data, a 2012 survey of 5,000 groundwater check points found 57.3 percent of samples to be heavily polluted.

China emits around 24 million tons of COD, or chemical oxygen demand, a measure of organic matter in waste water, and 2.45 million tons of ammonia nitrogen, into its water each year, Zhai said.

Over the next five years, China has previously estimated it will need to spend a total of 60 billion yuan to set up sludge treatment facilities, and a further 10 billion yuan for annual operation, the environment ministry says.

China to spend $330 billion to fight water pollution -paper| Reuters
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I call this a serious investment to take care our future water supply. Water is resource for the engine of our economy and future survival.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Excellent initiative.

We need to do more to protect our water resources.

According to officials, 96% of the mighty Yangtze River flows straight into the Pacific Ocean.

There is a lot we could do to harness that, the South-North Water Transfer Project being the biggest example.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Excellent initiative.

We need to do more to protect our water resources.

According to officials, 96% of the mighty Yangtze River flows straight into the Pacific Ocean.

There is a lot we could do to harness that, the South-North Water Transfer Project being the biggest example.

For 330 billions, we can throw some into Tibet water management , especially Brahmaputra river, we got nothing out of it, 100% of water go to our neighbor .

 

[bolo]

For 330 billions, we can throw some into Tibet water management , especially Brahmaputra river, we got nothing out of it, 100% of water go to our neighbor .

When are they diverting the Brahmaputra river to the north?

 

[Genesis]

Some GOOD news about China from CNN, I must be dreaming

China's bold environmental move – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs


China's bold environmental move
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By Global Public Square staff

There has been some surprising good news out of China. As you probably know, China's super-speed growth has produced super-high levels of pollution. Indeed, Beijing's poor air quality has popularized the word "air-pocalypse". There are days when you can barely see more than a few feet in front of you. It got so bad that the U.S. embassy in Beijing posted a real-time measure of air quality on its website; Chinese officials, of course, have disputed the American data as propaganda.

So people, mostly Chinese people, have asked for an accurate reading of pollution levels in China. In recent years, environmental groups have pressured Beijing to release official data on air pollution. But the government, notorious for being tight-lipped, secretive and unresponsive, had declined. In fact, few people actually believed that Beijing would ever accede to their demands.

Well, guess what? Beijing has ordered 15,000 factories to report details about their emissions: in public, and in real-time. The decree also calls for details on the release of pollutants like wastewater and heavy metals. This is a real first in China – an unprecedented mandate for transparency.

Keep in mind that many of these factories are actually run by powerful state-owned companies, with links to politicians in the upper echelons of government. But for the first time, there is a requirement to publicly acknowledge the environmental impact of mass-scale production…and to take steps to go green.

If you look at the numbers, perhaps we should have seen this coming.

According to the World Bank, the impacts of China's environmental degradation costs the country 9 percent of its Gross National Income. Studies by a number of journals show that more than a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of the country's poor air quality.

More from CNN: Can social media clear air?

And then there's the public response. In the West, we tend to hear only about the big incidents. For example, this time last year, when thousands of dead pigs were found floating in a river near Shanghai. Or when 39 tons of a deadly chemical leaked into one of China's main rivers. Or yet another "air-pocalypse."

All of these incidents and others have led to mass outrage and protest. But often unreported, at a smaller level, every day across this vast country there are hundreds of local protests about the environment. China's Society of Environmental Sciences reports that protests about the environment have grown by an average of 29 percent every year between 1996 and 2011. There are some reports that a majority of the organized protests in China are about the poor quality of air and water.

The good news – for China, and the world – is that Beijing seems to be listening. China has promised to spend $280 billion dollars cleaning up its air. According to information from the International Energy Agency: China's carbon emissions per unit of GDP have dropped by half since the 1990s. Massive investments in wind and solar energy mean that China hopes to get 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020.

The next step is to be open and transparent about how it is progressing on these fronts. But this is a big first move. And it should send a signal to other developing countries to stop denying their pollution problems and start dealing with them. Most of them are actually much worse than China in this regard. So we have the strange irony that dictatorial China, responding to public protests, is cleaning up its air faster than democratic India.

Post by: CNN's Jason Miks

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

$330 billion being spent to clean up our water.

$280 billion being spent to clean up our air.

Money well spent. But we should do more as well.

When are they diverting the Brahmaputra river to the north?

Brahmaputra is a secondary concern.

First we need to complete the main part of the South-North Water Transfer Project. The Yangtze river has SO much water, and 96% of it is going into the Pacific Ocean.

Once that is done, it should be much easier to do other similar projects.

 

[eazzy]

Money well spent indeed. France is good at water management, I hope we can help you !

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

$330 billion being spent to clean up our water.

$280 billion being spent to clean up our air.
Money well spent. But we should do more as well.

Brahmaputra is a secondary concern.

First we need to complete the main part of the South-North Water Transfer Project. The Yangtze river has SO much water, and 96% of it is going into the Pacific Ocean.

Once that is done, it should be much easier to do other similar projects.

When China is serious to tackle the Polution ,water shortage, it will get it done at lightning speed. 330 billions will create alot of jobs for our people. China should spend money on desalination of sea Ice as well, this will provide extra water for our cities beside south-North water transfer.

If China want to recover those desert land of Taklamakan, diverting Tibet water is a must, we can solve the sand storm problem and increase our farm lands at the same time.

China to industrialize sea ice desalination - Xinhua | English.news.cn

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

When China is serious to tackle the Polution ,water shortage, it will get it done at lightning speed. 330 billions will create alot of jobs for our people. China should spend money on desalination of sea Ice as well, this will provide extra water for our cities beside south-North water transfer.

If China want to recover those desert land of Taklamakan, diverting Tibet water is a must, we can solve the sand storm problem and increase our farm lands as the same time.

$330 billion is a huge amount of money. Look at how much fuss India is making over spending only $10 billion on their MMRCA bid.

The Brahmaputra has an enormous water flow as well, same as the Yangtze. Imagine how much kinetic energy and water we can harness from it!

And since it starts in our territory, nobody else can question it. China will never sign a water-sharing treaty with any other country.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

$330 billion is a huge amount of money. Look at how much fuss India is making over spending only $10 billion on their MMRCA bid.

The Brahmaputra has an enormous water flow as well, same as the Yangtze. Imagine how much kinetic energy and water we can harness from it!

And since it starts in our territory, nobody else can question it. China will never sign a water-sharing treaty with any other country.

Don't let this brahma chellaney know he will cry without tear

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Don't let this brahma chellaney know he will cry without tear

LOL, Brahma Chellaney.

China has never, and will never, sign a water sharing agreement with any other country. Why should we weaken our own bargaining position for no reason?

If any country wants a favor from us, they can come and ask for it.

Friendly countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan know we will always give them a good deal. As for India and the countries in SE Asia (Mekong river), they'll have to bargain like everyone else.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

LOL, Brahma Chellaney.

China has never, and will never, sign a water sharing agreement with any other country. Why should we weaken our own bargaining position for no reason?

If any country wants a favor from us, they can come and ask for it.

Friendly countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan know we will always give them a good deal.

But he think otherwise, he claimed water to belong to first user's right....some statement like that...i don't recall exactly.

 

[bolo]

LOL, Brahma Chellaney.

China has never, and will never, sign a water sharing agreement with any other country. Why should we weaken our own bargaining position for no reason?

If any country wants a favor from us, they can come and ask for it.

Friendly countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan know we will always give them a good deal. As for India and the countries in SE Asia (Mekong river), they'll have to bargain like everyone else.

China should not even offer any deal to her smelly neighbor and her backstabbing SE bastard of a friend. Let them suffer than the dogs will be kind to the master.

 

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Don't give the Indians anything.

 

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Don't give the Indians anything.

HOW ON EARTH INDIA COMES INTO PICTURE WHEN OP IS TALKING ABOUT CHINA TAKING STEPS TO GET WATER POLLUTION IN CHEKC OR ARE OBSESSED WITH INDIA AND