Survey on Living Environment of Rural Residents in Central China

摘要

Aims: To deeply understand the living environment of rural residents in central China and to provide the basic information for rural environmental comprehensive management plans. Methods We chose 560 households and 560 family members as the subjects of household-spot observation and inquiring survey in 7 counties in central China. The survey and interview were implemented by trained observers. Results : According to the survey, households overall sanitation was general, and there were only 28.2% of households overall sanitation in good conditions; 59.8% of households kept free-roaming livestock and poultry,30.2%of households existed visible livestock feces;8.2% of households piled up their garbage randomly,47.9% of households discarded their sewage randomly, at the same time 27.4% of households dropped their sewage into the ditch and river directly; According to the survey biomass fuels (wood or straw) and coal remained the main cooking fuels in the rural area, accounting for 61.3% and 40.4% respectively;66.8% of the households used shallow groundwater in distributed supply,76.2 % of the wells located within 20m from the toilets, 47.5% of the wells located within 50m from the pool/ponds; the households hardly had sanitary latrines.27.2% of the toilets have no ceiling, 46.1% were not cleaned up. Conclusion: Household sanitation situation was not optimistic in the area surveyed. The proportion of the availability of cleaner fuel was low and there were risk factors affecting the safety of drinking water. Feces piled up in the open air and without harmless treatment, and many households discarded their sewage and piled up the garbage randomly.