The analysis from the legal perspective about the protection of water environment in the Three Gorges

摘要

This article has introduced legal defects existing in protection of water environment in the Three Gorges from five aspects, which includes the lack of a ruling law, lack of special river basins administrative organization and coordination mechanism, the public having tenuous consciousness of environmental protection, defects in water use system and lack of market mechanism for the pollution control. The author has puts forward his own advice according to the above five aspects in the end, which are to formulate prevention and control regulations of the water pollution in three gorges, establish water environment management committee, encourage the public to participate in these activities, and perfect Compensation systems for use of water and chargeback system for pollution discharge.