Safe Drinking Water to Rural Schools in China
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Non Profit
Streams Action program reaches 1000 students and teachers in rural areas across China.
Honeywell and the China Environmental Protection Foundation announced the kickoff of Streams Action 2017 to provide safe drinking water to another five Chinese rural schools to benefit about 1,000 faculty and students in the new semester.
The project will support five schools in Northwest China’s Xinjiang, North China’s Inner Mongolia and Hebei, and Southwest China’s Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. This is the second phase of the Streams Action program following its launch at five schools last year. Streams Action is sponsored by Honeywell Hometown Solutions, the company’s corporate citizenship initiative.
The project team will conduct field testing and monitoring of drinking water in five schools: Xinjiang’s Miao’ergou Primary School, Hebei’s Jiulonggang Primary School, Guizhou’s Shuikou Primary School, Sichuan’s Honeywell Baohe Primary School, and Inner Mongolia’s Zhaojun Primary School.
Targeted water treatment plans will be proposed based on the results of drinking water quality, bringing the schools’ well and tap water in conformance with Drinking Water Standards (CJ94-2005) published by the Water Supply and Drainage Standard Committee under the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China.
According to the Ministry of Environment’s China Environmental Status Bulletin in June 2016, among 6,124 underground water monitoring sites nationwide, 45.4 percent were rated as “relatively poor” and 14.7 percent “extremely poor,” endangering thousands of schools in China.
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- Drinking Water Security
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- Rural Water Supply & Sanitation
- Sanitation
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- Sanitation & Hygiene
- Rural Development
- Education
- Rural development
- Public Health
- Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)