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Wide pan of Yongding River 2. Polluted water flowing in river 3. Villager carrying pears walking to house in Jiuzhuangwo village4. Wide of villager walking into house5. Various of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHuailai county, Hebei Province, 2 September 2006 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide pan of Yongding River \u003cbr/\u003e2. Polluted water flowing in river \u003cbr/\u003e3. Villager carrying pears walking to house in Jiuzhuangwo village\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of villager walking into house\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of villager washing pear under tap water\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin), Du Huaiyou, 76-year-old villager:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We don't drink water in the Yongding River, because the water is not clean and it is polluted.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Q: Did villagers in the village drink water in Yongding River before?)\u003cbr/\u003e\"We didn't drink water in the river and we haven't drunk the water in the river for years.  We drink the spring water from the mountain beside our village.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of sheep drinking water from the Yongding River\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close of sheep drinking water\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin), Du Huaiyou, 76-year-old villager:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The government should forbid factories from discharging waste water into the river.  They can't discharge the waste water into the river where people normally get water to drink.  They should discharge the waste water somewhere else.\"\u003cbr/\u003eXuanhua city, Hebei Province, 2 September 2006  \u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of power plant, tilt to river with polluted water discharged by power plant\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of polluted water flowing \u003cbr/\u003e12. Medium of pipe discharging water, zoom in \u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of water pipe\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing, 7 September 2006 \u003cbr/\u003e14. Set up of water expert Jiang Wenlai \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin), Jiang Wenlai, Researcher of water resources, Chinese Academy of Agriculture:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The problems of China's water resources can be summarised as 'too much water, lack of water, dirty water and turbid water'. By 'too much water', it means China has too many floods every year; by 'lack of water', it means many parts of China are terribly short of water; by 'dirty water', it means China has serious water pollution problems and by 'turbid water', it means the water is turbid because some areas of China have serious problems of water and soil loss.\"\u003cbr/\u003eXuanhua city, Hebei Province, 2 September 2006 \u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide pan of Yanghe River (upper reaches of Yongding River) \u003cbr/\u003e17. Close of polluted water \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide pan of factory on the bank of Yanghe River \u003cbr/\u003eBeijing, 7 September 2006 \u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin), Jiang Wenlai, Researcher of water resources, Chinese Academy of Agriculture:\u003cbr/\u003e\"To a river, a factory can be a decisive reason for its water pollution in some areas.  However, looking at the overall situation of China, waste water discharged by factories can be a very important reason for water pollution but not the only reason. As you know there are many reasons for water pollution, including waste water discharge in cities and of course industrial waste water.\"\u003cbr/\u003eYichang city, Hubei Province, 17 May 2006  \u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide pan of Three Gorges Dam\u003cbr/\u003e21. Water flowing through dam\u003cbr/\u003eChongqing city, 21 August 2006 \u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of villagers getting water in buckets from water wagon distributing drinking water during drought\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of villager carrying water buckets on shoulders\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide of farmland \u003cbr/\u003eThe Chinese government says all of China's major rivers are dangerously polluted and millions of people lack access to clean drinking water.\u003cbr/\u003eThe waters of the Yongding River, which runs through the Huailai County, in China's Hebei province, are no exception. \u003cbr/\u003eIts waterbed has been polluted with lichens for years.\u003cbr/\u003e76-year-old local farmer Du Huaiyou said he hasn't drank water from the Yongding River for years, although the river is just 150 metres away from his village, Jiuzhuangwo, because it \"is not clean and it is polluted.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDu said too much waste water was being discharged from factories into the river.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The government should forbid factories from discharging waste water into the river.  They can't discharge the waste water into the river where people normally get water to drink.  They should discharge the waste water somewhere else,\" Du told the Associated Press.\u003cbr/\u003eYongding River, originates from China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, runs through five provinces of China to Beijing. \u003cbr/\u003eThe river's upper reaches run through Xuanhua city where some power plants and cement factories discharge their waste water directly into the river without any treatment. \u003cbr/\u003eThe river is also one of the water sources of the Guanting Reservoir, in Hebei province's Huailai County. \u003cbr/\u003eSevere pollution has made the Guanting Reservoir, once one of Beijing's major sources of drinking water with an annual capacity of one (b) billion cubic metres an unfit source since 1998. \u003cbr/\u003eDirty water is China's most pressing environmental problem and most of China's canals, rivers, and lakes are polluted, a vice minister in China's Construction Ministry told reporters.\u003cbr/\u003e106 (m) million Chinese in rural areas will get clean and safe drinking water in the next five years and all rural people will be provided with safe portable water funded by the central government, pledged China's water resources official recently according to China Daily Newspaper.\u003cbr/\u003eSome 300 (m) million people living in the countryside drink water tainted by chemicals and other pollutants, according to China daily Newspaper.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The problems of China's water resources are serious,\" said Jiang Wenlai, professor with China's Academy of Agriculture, \u003cbr/\u003eWenlai said the water problems can be summarised as too many floods, serious water shortage, terrible water pollution and water and soil loss.\u003cbr/\u003eChina's rivers have witnessed frequent floods and industrial pollution accidents in recent years. \u003cbr/\u003eFlash flooding caused by torrential rain in southern China, including Hunan, killed 170 people since late May this year and forced 1.6 (m) million people to flee their homes.\u003cbr/\u003eThe water crisis last year in China's northeastern city of Harbin caused by chemical explosions of a factory has triggered the most terrible water pollution accident in China. \u003cbr/\u003eTo ease the problem of water resources, China has started some giant water projects, including the Three Gorges Dam, in order to improve water control and floods prevention in the country. \u003cbr/\u003eBut the project, which costs about 180 (b) billion Ren Min Bi (RMB) (22.5 (b) billion US dollars), has been blamed for some ecological disasters such as the drought in Central China's Chongqing city.\u003cbr/\u003eChongqing has suffered an unprecedented drought this summer.\u003cbr/\u003eThe shortage of drinking water has affected more than 14 (m) million residents.\u003cbr/\u003eMany villages have seen dried-up ponds, withered corn crops and cracked farmland.\u003cbr/\u003eSome villagers had to walk miles for drinking water that local government delivered by water wagons, 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