China Network Television News: For the Chinese people, what is the most important thing to change in China now? I think there must be too many answers, from life to society, from economics to politics, from democracy to a variety of topics. But if you say two of them, the standard answer, and I'm sure you'll agree, is clean air and clean drinking water. Say a thousand things and ten thousand, what is the most important, but the health of life is the most important, stay in the green mountains are not afraid of no firewood, but if the air is not good, the water is not good, the trouble can be big, since yesterday, our country officially began to implement between cities and towns, the latest health standards for drinking water are enforced, what does it mean? Does it mean that we can throw away the bottled water at home, the purifier, and the water from our tap that we can drink as soon as it is twisted out? Let's focus on this important topic.
Commentary: The factory water from the city's waterworks, as well as the peripheral water sent to the homes of many people, can be directly drunk. This good wish should have become a reality yesterday, but in the face of the mandatory implementation of the "new national standard" for drinking water, everyone is wondering, can the tap water in our homes be directly drunk now?
E Xueli, researcher at the Institute of Environment, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention:
From the perspective of water supply security, it is a system project, which includes a water source, and the water source is the raw material of the waterworks, and if the raw materials are not good, the products may be affected. The second point of view is the treatment of the water plant, which should be a relatively advanced technology to treat the water very well. Thirdly, there is the problem of transportation, which is the pipe network just mentioned, and finally reaches the faucet. There may be a secondary water supply problem in a high-rise building in the middle, so every link should be controlled in order to ensure the safety of drinking water.
Commentary: According to the requirements, from July 1 this year, China will enforce the new version of the drinking water sanitation standards, this new standard, the detection indicators have reached 106, for arsenic, lead, chromium and other heavy metals index restrictions, the minimum is stipulated. Generally in line with WHO water quality standards, this also means that the new drinking water standards have finally been implemented nationwide after five years of implementation in 2007.
Zhang Lan, Deputy Director of the Water Quality Safety Monitoring Office of the Environmental Research Institute of the China Accusation Center:
The main amplification index is to focus on strengthening, organic matter in drinking water, microorganisms, as well as pesticides and supporting disinfection by-products such control indicators, then in terms of disinfection, that is, in the old standard in 1985, we only introduced chlorination disinfection, which is also combined with the main water purification process at that time, then in the new version of the standard, we have added on the basis of chlorination disinfection, chlorine dioxide disinfection and ozone disinfection and so on.
Commentary: It is understood that the old drinking water sanitation standards were formulated in 1985, with 35 water quality indicators, and in 2006, under the coordination of the Ministry of Health and other departments, experts from all walks of life were organized to complete the revision of the new standards. At that time, in view of the new standard called strict, the implementation of the relevant indicators of the project and date, handed over to the provincial ** according to the actual situation, and reported to the National Standards Committee, the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Health for the record, all indicators must be implemented by July 1, 2012 at the latest, but just yesterday, on the "new national standard" mandatory implementation deadline, but no city in China publicly stated that the end of the tap water to the household can be directly drunk. Whether this mandatory standard, which has been pinned on high hopes, seems to have become another question mark.
Bai Yansong: This new drinking water hygiene standard, which is closely related to thousands of households and more than 1.4 billion Chinese, has been implemented since July 1, 2007, but also considering our special national conditions, so a five-year transition period has been set, but yesterday, the transition period ended, that is, officially entered the stage of enforcement. I don't know if I'm right, but once it's enforced, it's non-negotiable, and all cities have to meet that standard. Now that such a new standard has been reached, what does it mean, let's take a look at the characteristics of the "new national standard", the characteristics of the "new national standard" drinking water quality indicators have increased from the original standard of 35 to 106, which is very, very detailed. In addition, this is very good, unifying the sanitary standards of drinking water in urban and rural areas, so that there is no need for a gap between urban and rural areas. Even if there is a gap between urban and rural areas in the matter of drinking water, we are quite embarrassed. The third basically realizes the drinking water standard in line with international standards, in line with international standards, in foreign countries I saw foreigners turn the faucet in the morning to drink a stomach, exercise back and drink a stomach, at that time I was very envious, we dare not do it.
Now that enforcement has been in place since yesterday, we should have the same qualities, can we do it? Next, connect with a very authoritative expert, he is Wang Zhansheng, a professor at the School of Environment of Tsinghua University, I want to say a few more words, Wang Lao is the chairman of the Water Advanced Treatment Research Association, and he also participated in the last review meeting of the new standard, hello Professor Wang.
Wang Zhansheng: Hello.
Bai Yansong: Since yesterday, have everyone thrown away all the bottled water and purifiers at home, and we can drink this water without heating?
Wang Zhansheng: Not yet, because the terminal water meets the standard, and the terminal water has to be sent to every household through the secondary water supply.
Bai Yansong: I understand what you mean, is the water coming out of the waterworks drinkable from yesterday?
Wang Zhansheng: The factory water standard does not mean that the water standard of the faucet in the user's home meets the standard.
Bai Yansong: Because there are also water tanks, water pipes, and so on.
Wang Zhansheng: Because there is also a pipeline transportation, and there is also a secondary water supply, which has to pass through the pool, and then pump it to the high-level water tank, and then supply it to each household.
Bai Yansong: Then the people should say that you are not fooling me, isn't it still impossible to eat?
Wang Zhansheng: So there is a problem, the problem of secondary water supply will be solved in the future, and finally a serious and responsible company will be designated, and it is best that the water company will be responsible for the end, to every faucet.
Bai Yansong: Mr. Wang, the current faucet has implemented a new standard, is it possible to eat it with confidence after heating it after it is wrung out?
Wang Zhansheng: If your water is directly from the tap pipe, it's okay.
Bai Yansong: Really?
Wang Zhansheng: It should be possible to be like Beijing.
Bai Yansong: What about an ordinary city in my hometown, Inner Mongolia?
Wang Zhansheng: Ordinary cities don't necessarily have poor water quality, it depends on how well they are managed, so some cities should be okay.
Bai Yansong: Wang Lao has another question, you see I have a data here, this is the national deputy director Du Ying announced, "Drinking Water Sanitation Standards" in the national city of public water supply plants, the factory water sample compliance rate is 83%, 17% is not qualified. Set up the water sample at the end of the water supply of the city and county, that is, after the tap, the final compliance rate is 796%, down 4%, by July 1 this year, we will be able to achieve 100% factory qualified?
Wang Zhansheng: Impossible, it is impossible, because 17% of the factory is unqualified.
Bai Yansong: Mr. Wang, can we understand that even if the mandatory standards were implemented yesterday on July 1, they have not yet played the role of mandatory standards and enforcement, and there are still people in the transition period?
Wang Zhansheng: Yes, this problem was not properly grasped in the first five years, and no unit seriously did it according to the requirements.
Bai Yansong: I heard that you were very anxious in this sentence, in fact, there are many people who are as anxious as you, and there will be questions for you next.
Our next concern is that the two citizens are the same as Wang Lao, and of course we are also highly concerned about the safety of tap water and drinking water.
Commentary: In the face of the mandatory implementation of the "new national standard" for drinking water on July 1, in the last 30 days, 35 waterworks in 32 provincial capitals across the country will receive a copy of the same express, the content is to require them to disclose the new drinking water hygiene standards imposed by the state on July 1, the first factory tap water quality testing data, and the requirements for 35 waterworks are not the relevant departments, but two ordinary Nanjing citizens.
Nanjing citizen Cheng Yuan:
For example, as a citizen of Nanjing, in addition to the national pass rate, I am more concerned about whether the water I drink is qualified.
Reporter: Are you worried now?
Cheng Yuan: I'm worried.
Commentary: Statistics show that there are more than 4,000 water plants in the country, for more than 400 million urban residents above the county level about 60 million tons of tap water per day, according to the report, in 2011, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, together with relevant units, organized professional water quality testing institutions, accounting for 80% of the country's urban public water supply capacity of the water plant, the factory water quality was sampled. As a result, "according to the evaluation of the new "Drinking Water Sanitation Standard", the water quality compliance rate of the waterworks is 83%. The quality of tap water is a key indicator, and this is also the project that the two Nanjing citizens asked to be made public.
Cheng Yuan: Now the safety of tap water is mainly linked, whether the tap water is qualified, and then after a long period of pipeline transportation, whether the water in the user's home is qualified, so we just want to do the first step, (we) require the disclosure of two data, the first is that from July 1, the "new national standard" mandatory implementation of the first test of factory water, which items were tested, because the "new national standard" has 106 items, we want to know which items have been tested. The second request is what the specific data for each of these items is tested.
Commentary: Send express delivery to 35 water plants, the total cost is more than 800 yuan, completely at the expense of two people, there are three things in each express delivery, **information disclosure application form, a copy of their ID card, and a ** relevant provisions of the information disclosure regulations.
Cheng Yuan: In order to ensure that the applied company feels that we are serious about doing this, we have made copies of our ID cards and sent them over. Then we put the relevant laws together on an A4 piece of paper, printed them out and sent them them.
Commentary: According to Article 37 of the ** Information Disclosure Regulations, public enterprises and institutions closely related to the interests of the people, such as education, medical care, sanitation, family planning, water supply, power supply, gas supply, heat supply, environmental protection, and public transportation, should also disclose the information they obtain in the process of providing social and public services. At the same time, the eighth paragraph of Article 11 of the Regulations on the Management of Urban Water Supply Quality also stipulates that urban water supply units shall accept inquiries from the public about the information on the quality of urban water supply.
On July 1st, 35 couriers have been sent.
Cheng Yuan: Because this is a drinking water problem, it cannot be avoided, and we expect the water plant to give us a reply. I think that only by going through a transparent process can everyone be ***
Bai Yansong: I said at the beginning of the program, according to my understanding, since the new sanitary standards for drinking water have been implemented yesterday, and it is mandatory, it should be 100% water, we should eat it, since now people have said that there are still 17% unqualified when they come out of the tap tap, and as of last year, the number has become a little more than 20% from our own faucet. When Wang Lao connected just now, he was also very, very anxious, because some people had wasted the transition period of the past five years, and they didn't pay attention to it. If we look at such data, what are the consequences if we don't pay attention to the issue of water? The World Health Organization survey shows that 80% of the world's diseases, 50% of the world's child deaths, are related to poor drinking water quality, in addition to poor drinking water quality leads to more than 50 kinds of diseases, I think this point actually does not need to say these figures, Chinese understand, otherwise we will not have a lot of buckets, water purifiers The entire market is becoming more and more popular, and we can provide you with this number in a while.
Next, I will immediately connect with Mr. Wang, hello Mr. Wang.
Wang Zhansheng: Hello.
Bai Yansong: In the past five years, who is not so attentive, who has wasted time, and who is responsible?
Wang Zhansheng: In my opinion, after the standards were announced, there was no stipulation that any department should seriously supervise and inspect, and it stands to reason that the Ministry of Health supervises and inspects. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development also has the responsibility to urge local waterworks to strengthen treatment, or increase the depth of treatment. But no one does that, I think.
Bai Yansong: It stands to reason that such a big thing, and it was enforced at the beginning of yesterday, how can it be done if you don't catch it, do I understand it right? Enforcement is what should be done.
Wang Zhansheng: Yes, that's right, enforcement means that there is no room for bargaining.
Bai Yansong: That's still 17% outflow, and a little more than 20% is out of our faucet, so the proportion of unqualified people is actually not low.
Wang Zhansheng: It's hard to say whether this 83% is to every household, of course, some can, some are not easy to say, I think this kind of problem should be announced, because the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development also has a regulation that the water quality results should be announced to the public every year, and they should be published after collation, analysis and summary. The people have the right to know, and I think that after the announcement, we can urge those city leaders who have not met the standards to make up their minds to improve it and change the people to drink safer water.
Bai Yansong: If I don't announce it, if I am in a city with 83% of the qualifications, I don't dare to say, because I think I am in the 17% of the unqualified.
Wang Zhansheng: Yes, it is beneficial to announce it in this way, and it can urge the leaders of those cities that have not met the standards to do a good job.
Bai Yansong: Mr. Wang, do you advocate the introduction of third-party testing and then publish it, so that the public's trust is higher, otherwise the waterworks will announce it themselves, and in the current environment, I am afraid that there are still many people who do not believe it, even if he is right.
Wang Zhansheng: That's right, because you can't be both an athlete and a referee, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development used to cross-test, so I believe this result should be more reliable.
Bai Yansong: Mr. Wang, you are so authoritative, and you have been dealing with relevant departments and participating in the review, you must have mentioned such a suggestion?
Wang Zhansheng: This matter is to see that all ministries are seriously responsible for the people.
Bai Yansong: Elder Wang, there is another number here, and I would like to ask you, what are your feelings, we checked the number today, it may be because the people feel that they are the 17%, unsafe in the wave. In 2008, the annual sales volume of our national bottled water was estimated to be 3 billion barrels, which is equivalent to a person drinking nearly three barrels, and in 2009, the national water dispenser sales were 11 million units, but this year, a water dispenser is not used by one person. In 2010, the sales volume of household water purifiers in the country was 15 million units, because water purifiers are growing rapidly, because now many people are worried that water dispensers are not safe, what do you think of the number I just read, what does it mean?
Wang Zhansheng: This can be understood in this way, a common people don't know, whether your effluent is up to standard, you didn't tell the people, even if the tap water meets the standard, the people can also further improve, because the standard is only 60 points, it is qualified.
White Rock Pine: It's the minimum standard.
Wang Zhansheng: You can do 80 points, 90 points, so some people make their own water purifiers, but the safety of water purifiers is also a problem, you have to be able to use it, use it scientifically, because I have seen a video, that is the United States, it says that the most reliable is tap water, because it is tested, and some people urge inspection. So in this case, I think it's okay to increase the water dispenser, that is, there are ** everywhere that should be announced, that is, my water is qualified, and you can drink it.
Bai Yansong: The minimum standard I am talking about is the minimum standard of safety, and even the minimum standard of safety has not yet been reached, so we can't just stay here, there may be some resentment or complaints, and the most important thing is that we must stand up together to change and build. Good old man, if you still have questions for a while, let's pay attention to how to make drinking water safer.
Ren Maodong, member of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress:
4Among the 600 million people, there are 98 million people with unsafe water quality, and about 31 million people out of 62 million people with direct water supply services for urban construction have not drunk the water that meets the standards.
Minister of Health Chen Zhu:
By 2015, all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and provincial capitals will have full coverage of 106 indicators, and the 42 conventional indicators I just mentioned will be covered in prefecture-level cities, plus local key indicators, and the full coverage of 42 conventional indicators will be achieved at the county level.
Commentary: On June 29, the members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress conducted a special inquiry on the report on the work of ensuring the safety of drinking water. Drinking water safety is the foundation of health, and it has also attracted widespread attention in recent times.
The 12th Five-Year Plan and the 2020 long-term goals required that during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, cities and counties and key towns across the country must carry out water supply transformation and construction, including water supply facility transformation, new water supply facilities, water quality testing and supervision capacity building, and emergency capacity building. According to preliminary estimates by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the total investment in the national water supply renovation will reach 410 billion yuan, with the goal of achieving a stable standard of drinking water quality in China's cities and towns by 2020.
According to reports, since the late 90s of the last century, there has been little large-scale investment in the field of water supply in various parts of China, which has directly led to the backward equipment of thousands of urban waterworks, as well as the long-term operation of a considerable number of substandard pipe networks, which indirectly led to the substandard water quality in some cities and towns in China. In addition to the backwardness of equipment, water pollution is a major challenge to drinking water safety. On June 27, Du Ying, deputy director of the National People's Congress, reported to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the safety and security of urban and rural drinking water, saying that the current water source and water quality conditions are not optimistic, about 35700 million cubic meters of water quality did not meet the standard, accounting for 11 of the total water supply4%。
According to data from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, groundwater pollution in half of China's urban areas is serious, and 57% of groundwater testing sites have poor or even very poor water quality. In the first half of 2011, except for the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, the water quality of the seven major river systems was good, and the proportion of the five inferior water quality sections of the Haihe River exceeded 40%, which was severely polluted, and the rest of the rivers were moderately or lightly polluted, 90% of the urban river sections were polluted to varying degrees, about half of the urban groundwater pollution was relatively serious, and nearly 200 million rural people could not drink water that met the standards.
Bai Yansong: I also noticed that Chen Zhu, Minister of Health, in several meetings and speeches, is trying his best to promote and implement such a new sanitation standard for drinking water, but the new mandatory sanitation standards come to us vigorously, if we can't get the broad support of the whole society to the local government, including the relevant departments plus the water supply company a comprehensive cooperation, in the end its mandatory standards are difficult to have a practical effect, almost become a poster hanging on our wall. It was obviously a joke, and no one wanted to take it. The most important thing is that the mandatory standards must really have a mandatory deterrent effect, so that our drinking water will gradually become safer.
At this time, it is going to change, and I have to connect with Mr. Wang, hello Mr. Wang.
Wang Zhansheng: Hello.
Bai Yansong: You are most familiar with the whole tap water treatment process, involving this, from the water source, to the water plant, the clear water pool, through the water pump, the tap water pipeline, and then the user faucet to our home, in such a process, what worries you the most now? What is the most problematic?
Wang Zhansheng: I think the main reason is that our current drinking water treatment plant process is too backward, it is only coagulation and precipitation filtration and disinfection is to remove colloids, can not remove dissolved organic pollution, that is, it can remove part, but can not remove most of it, so this problem should be improved process, but our process is too backward, so we should do advanced treatment, such as activated carbon adsorption, or ozone activated carbon, so that it can be greatly improved. I think it is acceptable to increase the water company by three cents a ton of water, so if there is no investment, you can find those water companies and let them do the bot, let it invest and let it run and finally return it to you, 20 years. However, this also requires that the price of water should be of high quality and high price, and with the increase of wages, the price of water should also be gradually increased.
Bai Yansong: Wang Lao, in fact, your words, I understand what you heard, you think everyone is also reasonable, in addition, not only reasonable, but also calculated, on the one hand, it should bear what it has to bear, it cannot be said that it is all the people themselves to bear the process, but on the other hand, if you can ensure that the water wrung out of the faucet can be drunk directly, at least when it is hot, we are willing to pay a certain price increase for this, because we save a lot of money, we now buy water purifiers every day, buy bottled water, but is it really a matter of input?
Wang Zhansheng: I think the key is the issue of responsibility, if a city leader can be people-oriented and do it seriously, I think it is not very difficult to achieve the standard.
Bai Yansong: Finally, Mr. Wang asks you a question, who is the first person responsible for the real tap water standard?
Wang Zhansheng: It should be local**.
Bai Yansong: Thank you, Mr. Wang.
In fact, today Wang Lao was going to see a play, and when I heard that we were doing this show, I saw half of it and came back, because from the process of returning half of it, Wang Lao, who is in his 80s, gave me the deepest feeling that obviously he knew that this matter was simply the most important thing for Chinese or for people.
Since yesterday, this mandatory standard has been implemented, but it is worth looking at such a data again, we now have a water sample compliance rate of 83%, and 17% are unqualified. The water that comes out of the tap is 796% qualified, 204% of those who are not qualified, we can all be victims, so as the first person responsible, ** and each of us should be involved in making our lives safer.
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