Solving water safety problem for millions of rural people
DATE:2015-12-15 SOURCE:China Daily
Guizhou province's work over the past two years to provide safe clean drinking water for rural people has seen some tremendous results with more than 6 million people benefitting, thanks to the action plan it came up with for all rural areas, in September 2013 under a single administrator.
The provincial water resource department has increased its support by covering the expenses of projects in five impoverished counties. The plan called for drinking water and irrigation engineering, using almost 50 percent of the 25 billion yuan ($3.87 billion) budget to help 11.65 million people before 2017 and to irrigate 440,000 hectares of cropland by 2020.