Journal of Wetlands Research (한국습지학회지)
- Volume 9 Issue 1
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- Pages.47-60
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- 2007
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- 1229-6031(pISSN)
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- 2384-0056(eISSN)
Status, Trend and Strategy on Municipal Wastewater Management in China
- Wang, Baozhen (Water Pollution Control Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology) ;
- Wang, Lin (Water Pollution Control Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology) ;
- Liu, Shuo (Water Pollution Control Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology) ;
- Wang, Li (Water Pollution Control Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology) ;
- Wang, Zheng (Water Pollution Control Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology)
- Published : 2007.04.30
Abstract
The rapid development of economy in China at the expense of consuming huge amount of energy and resources, water resource in particular, which has resulted in the production and discharge of increasing amount of wastewater to the water environment. In order to effectively control the increasing water pollution trend, the State Council has stipulated that all the cities with population over 500,000 should reach wastewater treatment rate of 60% by 2005, and all the cities should reach the rate of 60% by 2010, of which Capital Beijing and all the province capital cities and important tourism cities should reach 70% then. By the end of 2005, of the 661 cities in China, 393 have built and operated municipal wastewater treatments with a total number of 790 sets, total treatment capacity of
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