Guangdong to Build Water Monitoring NetworkSouth China's Guangdong Province will spend 450 million yuan in the next ten years to construct a provincial network to monitor the quality of water.As the country's forerunner for the reform and opening-up drive, Guangdong has experienced fast expansion of both industrialization and urbanization, but the quality of water in the province, especially the environment of the water sources, has worsened. In the past years, the province has implemented a "clear-water project" and has also redoubled efforts to prevent water pollution, effectively halting the worsening of the water environment. A local official said that the projected investment would be used to build groups of automatic water quality monitoring stations to report daily the change of water quality on the Guangdong sections of the Xijiang, Beijiang and Pearl rivers, Hedi Reservoir of Jiuzhoujiang River, the main streams of the Hanjiang, Jianjiang, Lianjiang and Rongjiang rivers and junctures of cross- region rivers. A detailed plan regarding publication of the quality of the environment of surface water has been worked out, said the official. |
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