Ambitious goals were set in the 12FYP. The report looks at how close China is to meeting these goals including access to water and water quality as well as issues of ambiguous ownership, unclear water pricing mechanisms, immature market mechanisms, a lack of rural business models and governance.
China’s march to safe drinking water is still long and there are big challenges ahead, as Premier Li Keqiang said, the remaining tasks are all “hard bones”.
Some scholars think China is on the wrong path to safe drinking water. Get a comprehensive view on these issues now.
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China's Long March To Safe Drinking Water
China Water Risk and China Dialogue release "China's Long March To Drinking Water", a report on the true status of China's urban and rural drinking water in March, 2015.