Water Development Plan 2011-2015 Summary

• To improve major river channel segments and dams so that flood control can be improved to at most one flood every five years for low-lying areas
• To fully ensure water safety for the 300 million rural Chinese residents
• To increase centralized water supply beneficiary ratio to 80%
• Water supply capacity to increase by 40 billion m³ including approximately 20 billion m³ in the urban areas
• Urban water supply should be secure and be no lower than 95%.
• To control the national water use to within 635 billion m³ by 2015 and to reduce industrial water use by 30% using 2010 figures as a benchmark
• To increase efficient irrigation areas by 400 million acres by 2015, and improve irrigation water efficiency index to above 0.53 within this period
• Improve Grade I-III water quality for major rivers and lakes by 60%; urban wastewater treatment rate to 85%, and wastewater renewal rate to above 20% for water-needy cities
• To increase treated runoff areas by 2.5 million km²
• To reduce groundwater over-extraction
• To develop the basic system of water projects and water rights
• Vision 2020: National water use to be controlled within 670 billion m³ with irrigation water efficiency index to above 0.55

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