Project Planned to Ensure Water Quality in HKFeasibility studies have been completed on building a project to ensure quality of water supplied from Shenzhen, in Guangdong Province, to Hong Kong. According to Li Yihui, deputy head of Guangdong Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau, the project will begin this year and be finished by 2003.Fresh water in Hong Kong is mainly provided by Dongjiang- Shenzhen Water Supply Project constructed in the 1960s. Water comes from Dongjiang River and is then sent to the Shenzhen Reservoir and eventually channeled to HK. Along the way, the water runs through 12 towns and is polluted by industrial wastes and sewage. In the past decades, a local law was passed to protect water in the Dongjiang River. In the meantime, the provincial government of Guangdong has set up a water quality control committee to monitor the water in the province and the environment. From 1992 to 1999, Guangdong Province invested 1.8 billion yuan (about 217 million U.S. dollars) to control pollution in the Dongjiang River Valley and along the Dongjiang-Shenzhen Water Supply Project. They closed down or relocated 130 major companies who were polluting the environment and forced 200 enterprises to take measures to curb pollution according to state requirements. Completion of the project will prevent water supplied to Hong Kong from being contaminated by industrial wastes and other pollutants from surrounding areas. |
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