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Shenyang Municipal Health Care Bureau yesterday kicked off a week-long cam
paign on drinking water. According to the promotion, the bureau has set 397 observation points, monitoring and analyzing water quality quarterly.
An official with the bureau said more than 500 water wells had been recorded in maintenance filing and the bureau checked the its implementation in fixed term and urged water suppliers to step up the work.
To ensure water safety, Shenyang City set 379 monitoring points since 2011, forming a network in districts and counties.
Shenyang Municipal Sanitary Surveillance Bureau and Centre for Disease Control made quarterly check to the monitoring pointing on chlorine residue, turbidity, color, PH value, visible substance and smell, etc. the authorities can find risks in water as soon as possible after analyzing the results.
New national tap water standard will be carried out in July 1 and improvement of water quality is top priority of Shenyang City this year. Since March 20 Shenyang Water Supply Group Corporation has overhauled 9 major suppliers by closing unqualified wells, cleaning pipelines and storage reservoirs, upgrading filter chambers and distillers and installing online detectors of chlorine residue and turbidity. The move is aimed to ensure citizens can drink water that meeting 106 new national standards. |
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