Guangdong Province in southern China has arranged 10 million
yuan for the exploitation and evaluation of the underground water
at the emergency water source around the Pearl River Delta.
The Pearl River
Delta area
The program is aimed at solving the conflict between rapidly
increasing water demands due to economic development, urbanization,
population growth and water pollution and the finite water
sources.
The province will build up some eight emergency groundwater
reserves, six standby wells and a database of groundwater resource
in this program.
All these will help to form a strategic emergency water supply
system with abundant untapped groundwater resource, preventing
possible outbursts of industrial water contamination and salt tide
for the economic zone of Pearl River delta, one of the fastest
growing economic regions in China.
The project will also provide hydrological references for city
planning, water supply policymaking and management, as well as
information to the public.
(CRI February 21, 2008)
