China Earmarks Billions for Nearly 5,000 New Drinking Water Protection Projects

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China will allocate 430 billion yuan ($64.8 billion) through 2020 for 4,800 projects to improve and protect drinking water, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said Aug. 8. The ministry said 13 billion yuan ($1.95 billion) has been allocated so far this year as part of the spending program, mainly to protect urban drinking water resources and deal with brackish water problems in the Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei regions and several critical river basins.