ADB-Cleaning Up Xin'an River to Unleash a New Era of Growth in the People's Republic of China.
ENPNewswire-November 26, 2021--ADB-Cleaning Up Xin'an River to Unleash a New Era of Growth in the People's Republic of China
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Release date- 25112021 - Cleaning up the Xin'an River will help secure a reliable water supply for millions of residents, promote green development, and boost economic growth.
Pollution threatens the Xin'an River, a river system within the Yangtze River Economic Belt that provides water supply to millions of households.
To clean up the Xin'an River, ADB, and KfW are helping the People's Republic of China build new water supply, sewage, and stormwater facilities and pilot green financing mechanisms in the urban and rural areas along the river.
The new water and sewage facilities and green investments will help clean up the Xin'an River, secure a reliable water supply for millions of residents, and improve people's livelihoods.
The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) holds a key place in the economy of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It accounts for more than 40% of the country's population, 40% of its freshwater resources, and about 45% of its economic output. This resource, though, is under threat. Increasing pollution, degraded natural resources, and limited transport connectivity are constraining the growth of the YREB.
Pollution, in particular, is a threat to the Xin'an River, a river system within the YREB. Running from Huangshan city in Anhui province through Hangzhou municipality, the capital of Zhejiang province, the Xin'an River is life to the residents living along its banks-about 10 million people rely on it for water supply.
'The Xin'an River is an important source of drinking water and a strategic reserve water source for the whole Yangtze River Delta,' says Principal Water Resources Specialist for East Asia Mingyuan Fan. 'Without a clean-up in and around the Xin'an River, water security in Huangshan and Hangzhou will be but a distant dream.'
Huangshan's urban wastewater and sanitation facilities and sewage collection infrastructure is unable to control the pollution seeping into the river. Sewerage and stormwater overflow go directly to the river and its streams and waterways. Because of the sewer's poor quality, groundwater likewise infiltrates the wastewater treatment systems. Rural wastewater also contaminates the river. About 75% of Huangshan's 889 administrative villages lack wastewater treatment facilities. Thus, pollutants such as nitrogen...
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