subject: Rural Drinking Water Safety Audit Findings Violent Three Issues - Water, Water Safety, Environmental [print this page] Audit Commission issued 24 of 103 counties in rural drinking water safety audit of the survey, some have been built in rural drinking water safety Project There is no local matching funds in place, water quality compliance, the owner is not clear and other issues affecting the effectiveness of rural drinking water safety.
2009, the Audit Commission audit investigations in Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning and other 19 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities, hereinafter referred to as 19 provinces) of the 103 counties (county-level city, district, hereinafter referred to 103 counties) in 2006 to in 2008 to carry out the situation of rural drinking water safety.
Ministry of Water Resources and other central departments and local governments at various levels attach great importance to the audit survey found that the problem of audit recommendations seriously and to take effective measures to rectify and reform.
Audit found that from 2006 to 2008, 103 counties and plans to address safe drinking water 780.83 million, 657.53 million people in practical solutions, there are 123.3 million people have not been resolved, accounting for 16% of plan; some have built in rural drinking water safety water quality inherent in the low passing rate, high operating costs, management and maintenance works are not in place and not high utilization rate, affecting the effectiveness of rural drinking water safety.
Audit Foreign Funds Application Audit Division Xu Jiming said the reason for the problems mentioned above, in addition to drinking water in rural areas in recent years Source Pollution and other objective factors, there are local governments because the availability of matching funds.
Audit survey showed that 103 counties in 83 counties in varying degrees of local matching funds are not available problem.
2006 to 2008, the 83 county programs supporting 979 million yuan, the actual funds 546 million yuan, 433 million yuan of funds not in place, put in place was 56%. Gap of some local matching funds will be transferred to the farm households, resulting in mass self and help.
Audit showed that the implementation of rural drinking water safety management is not fully in place. Some of the rural drinking water safety project fails to require the installation of water purification facilities. Random audit of 131 key impose fluoride, such as brackish water in rural drinking water safety project, there are 36 projects were not designed to water purification facilities, accounting for 27%.
The end of 2008, the audit sample of 72 counties in the rural schools, the water not meet the national standard of 35%.
Xu Jiming said that although state ownership on rural drinking water safety requirements, but the lack of realistic concrete operation specifications, together with sources of investment in rural drinking water safety project in a complicated situation, less the actual implementation of this provision. Audit testing of the 1181 ownership of rural water projects were not implemented, leading to the owner is not clear, protection of rights affected by the project operator woeful.
In addition, the audit survey of 103 counties from 2006 to 2008 in rural drinking water safety project total investment of 3.793 billion yuan, 3.186 billion yuan of funds in place, accounting for 84% of plan.
Xu Jiming said the increase of rural drinking water safety project Environment Health quality, reduce water-borne disease transmission medium, to save medical expenses of farmers. Water resources department, according to estimates, annual savings per household in the project area Medicine Costs for about 200 yuan. Water resources department, according to estimates, through the implementation of rural drinking water safety project, the national average household savings in 53 years, fetching water and man-days.
