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access
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sanitation
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tory agencies in charge of rural drinking water supply projects;
87% of water supply projects with a capacity of providing
more than 1,000 tons of water per day or for over 10,000
people have marked their protected source water areas; and
55% of counties have secured their funding for project main-
tenance, which cumulatively reaches 1.05bn RMB. In 2017,
with continued project construction and management, China
is aiming to realise 83% of centralised rural water supply and
77% of tap water availability nationwide.
Contributions from IWHR to rural drinking water security
The China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower
Research (IWHR) serves as the main technological support
body to the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources with regard
to rural drinking water security, having long been involved
in research on water treatment, drinking water disinfection
and water quality inspection technologies, application of
information technology and standardisation of water supply,
as well as project sustainability. IWHR has poured consid-
erable resources into project planning, feasibility studies,
and design and technology dissemination, and has played
a prominent role in advancing technological development,
formulating industry technical standards and promoting the
application of related patents.
IWHR has completed two state key sci-tech projects during
the eleventh and twelfth Five-Year Plan periods, namely the
Research and Demonstration of Integrated Technologies for
Rural Water Supply Security and Major Sci-Tech Projects that
Guarantee Drinking Water Security in Towns and Villages.
IWHR is also responsible for a research project under a
state key water programme for research and demonstra-
tion of Rural Drinking Water Supervision, Water Resource
Allocation, and Standard Technology for Water Purification
through Slow Filtering.
IWHR has also developed and promoted a myriad of tech-
nologies and equipment that covers the entire water supply
process in rural China, including precision prospecting for
groundwater in water-scarce regions; high-fluorine water
Pupils enjoying good quality tap water in a rural school
Image: IWHR