English: ground water (pumped and treated water from an aquifer)
Chinese: 地下水
Pinyin: di4 xia4 shui3

For the World Water Day, as this day focuses on associations and organizations that work for improvment of drinking water and sanitation, here are few links that take the statement of NGOs in China in account. Like anywhere in the world, China’s NGOs care about many fields such as environment, social projects, nutrition and of course, water. Their status seems to be a little complicated, as you will read in the next linked documents. (more…)

The UN created the World Water Day in 1992, and since 1993, will be celebrated on the 22th of March every year. But today is the 20th, and the UN declare it as the 2008 World Water Day.
Nothing is gonna be posted for today on the subject. Just will wait til the 22th.

Green everywhere for everyone.

Who says hosting nation of the Olympic Games, says big budget. And who says drought in that country, says big issues for water supply. Except for China? Officially, yes. The authorities in charge for water management in Beijing had claimed that the Games will not suffer from a lack of water. “Water demand during the 2008 Olympics will be guaranteed,” said Wu Jisong, director of the water supply program under the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, in 2006. And for good reasons. (more…)

English: World Water Day (on March, the 22th)
Chinese: 世界水日
Pinyin: shi4 jie4 shui3 ri4

English: aquifard

Chinese: 含水层

Pinyin: han2shui3ceng2

Cheap water

From a general point of view, water price in China is seen as inadequate: it does not represent the true value of the available resources, the cost of water supply and wastewater retreatment. Until 2004, the authorities’ state of mind was that despite the severe shortage, water was too cheap to be used sparcely. Only a raised price could motivate consumers to conserve. (more…)