Beijing Policy 2: the benefits come from National South-to-North Water Diversion Project
"South to North Water Diversion Project" is a Chinese national strategic project. The purpose of this project is transfering the water resources of the Yangtze River from the upstream, midstream and downstream to Northern provinces, Huaihai plain and the northwest region where water resources is in shortage.
On 29th December 2015, the first stage of middle subject of South to North Water Diversion project was formally starting supply water to the Beijing. Beijing had accumulated about 0.87 billion cubic meters water, more than 1 / 3 of the total amount of water diversion project so far. A population of more than 1100 million are benefit from this project, and water quality is always stable in the surface water environmental quality class II and above.
Because of this project, the capital water supply is ensured, the strategic reserve of water resource is increased, the rate of groundwater decline is slown down, and the ecological environment of water is improved.
This 0.87 billion cubic meters water in Beijing was allocated as follow: 1. Beijing Waterworks used 0.58 billion cubic meters water. Because of that, tap water plant utilization of local surface water usage over the same period last year decreased by 0.275 billion cubic meters; 2. Reservoir water storage was 0.12 billion cubic meters; 3. Water resource area got 0.17 billion cubic meters replenishment.
On 29th December 2015, the first stage of middle subject of South to North Water Diversion project was formally starting supply water to the Beijing. Beijing had accumulated about 0.87 billion cubic meters water, more than 1 / 3 of the total amount of water diversion project so far. A population of more than 1100 million are benefit from this project, and water quality is always stable in the surface water environmental quality class II and above.
Because of this project, the capital water supply is ensured, the strategic reserve of water resource is increased, the rate of groundwater decline is slown down, and the ecological environment of water is improved.
This 0.87 billion cubic meters water in Beijing was allocated as follow: 1. Beijing Waterworks used 0.58 billion cubic meters water. Because of that, tap water plant utilization of local surface water usage over the same period last year decreased by 0.275 billion cubic meters; 2. Reservoir water storage was 0.12 billion cubic meters; 3. Water resource area got 0.17 billion cubic meters replenishment.