Worms found in heavily-polluted tap water in SW Chinese city   

甘肅靜寧現水污染：自來水管內有1厘米長蟲子(圖)

在甘肅東南的這座山區縣城，喝上一口干凈水，如今幾乎成了一種奢望。縣城10公里外的東峽水庫，原本是13萬人口賴以生存的飲用水源，從去年開始水質一度降為劣V類，而主水源地“甘泉調水”，同樣面臨著嚴重的污染。上游隆德縣的淀粉企業多年連續排污讓靜寧縣不堪重負，而當兩個縣都意識到污染問題迫在眉睫時，靜寧的水已經不能喝了。 [查看全文]

(ECNS) -- Clean drinking water is a luxury people in Jingning county of northwest China's Gansu province have yet to enjoy, with worms measuring around 1cm found in the local supply, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Wednesday.

In 2014, the Health Bureau in Jingning conducted 167 water quality tests with 63.5 percent meeting safe drinking standards. News that the water supply was not safe spread quickly amongst its 130,000 inhabitants.

Jingning's two water sources have been contaminated further upstream, by Delong county in neighboring Ningxia Hui autonomous region, over the past thirteen years. A number of small companies in Delong have contributed to the county's economic development; however, they also produce a large amount of untreated waste water, which flows into Yu River and causes pollution across Jingning.

Jingning and Delong are only 42 kilometres apart, but are situated in Gansu and Ningxia provinces respectively, which makes responsibility for water treatment more complicated.

Mechanisms to handle the issue are being established at the Ministry of Environment Protection with 38 million yuan ($6.1 million) to be invested in Yu River water treatment, including the establishment of a waste water treatment plant, the newspaper stated.