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March 23, 2005
360 million Chinese without Safe Drinking Water
Senior officials have expressed concerns that 360 million Chinese, pimarily in rural areas, as some cities that are facing shortages, or have no potable drinking water.
Zhai Haohui, vice minister of water resources, said in the China Daily that "priorities of government investment should be given to the construction of more projects capable of supplying clean drinking water for all people throughout China, particularly the millions of rural people plagued by unclean drinking water,"
"Hundreds of thousands of Chinese are afflicted with various diseases from drinking water that contains too much fluorine, arsenic, sodium sulfate or bitter salt," said Wang Shucheng, minister of water resources.
A plan approved in principle today by the State Council or cabinet pledged to provide safe drinking water to 20 million people in rural areas by the end of 2006, Xinhua news agency reported.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at March 23, 2005 05:52 PM
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