(Express delivery of the two sessions) CPPCC members to solve the problem of chaos in rivers and lakes suggest that "water basin" county governor responsibility
China News Service, Beijing, March 11 (Zhang Jing) "Since the implementation of the long-term system of rivers and lakes, the appearance of rivers and lakes has been significantly improved, and the water quality has been steadily improved. During the National People’s Congress, Huo Weiping, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a vice chairman of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a chairman of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Democratic Revolution, and the director of the Gansu Provincial Department of Water Resources, said, “However, the rivers and lakes The chaos problem still exists".
For example, Huo Weiping said that unannounced visits by the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Supervisory Team found that individual places emphasized approval and neglect of supervision, GDP and ecology, and the immediate and long-term; some river basins exceeded the permitted scope for sand mining, sand washing sewage direct discharge, and stealing. Mining river sand; some companies are even more deliberate, trying to get rid of the waste, hiding their warehouses, and burying concealed pipes in deep mountains or river banks to secretly discharge sewage and waste, seriously threatening drinking water safety, destroying the ecological environment, and harming the interests of the people.
The picture shows the Yellow River flowing through Liujiaxia Reservoir in 2018.
(Data Map) Photo by Hou Qi
The river and lake long system is an institutional innovation to strengthen the management and protection of rivers and lakes. The county and township river and lake chiefs are in the "frontier post" and play the role of "peripheral nerve". In order to ensure the implementation of the river and lake long system, Huo Weiping suggested, Learn from the "rice bag" governor responsibility system and the "vegetable basket" mayor responsibility system, and implement the "water basin" county governor responsibility system.
Huo Weiping said that the establishment of a blacklist system for polluting counties (enterprise) will make it difficult for those who are lucky enough to try their best and pay a heavy price. At the same time, the establishment of strict river and lake management and protection rewards and punishments will provide positive incentives, set benchmarks, and strengthen demonstration and leadership. It also reversely restrains, forms a deterrent, and forces the implementation of responsibility.
In addition, strengthen county wetland protection and rural river and lake management, integrate various types of wading funds at the county level, based on the characteristics of the regional basin, take the basin water system as the context, take measures to local conditions, scientifically plan, and step by step to promote water environment management and water scenic area construction, and implement Water system connectivity and comprehensive improvement projects will form a water cycle system that connects water systems, complements rivers and reservoirs, smoothly drains and utilizes efficient water circulation, so as to improve the natural environment of aquatic organisms and promote the coordinated development of water ecological civilization and ecological industry.
At the end of March 2020, Gansu fully launched the on-site inspection of sewage outfalls in the Yellow River Basin.
(Data map) Photo courtesy of Gansu Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment
Huo Weiping stated that the county-level chief river chief should be responsible for making good use of "basin water", insisting on using water to determine the city, water to determine the land, water to determine people, and water to determine production, with water resources as the most rigid constraint. We will implement a dual control action for the total amount and intensity of water use in the watershed area, especially in counties and districts. For areas that reach or exceed the carrying capacity of water resources, a policy of restricting water intake permits will be implemented, and water consumption will be allocated to households and enterprises.
Continue to promote the reform of domestic and industrial water prices, implement the total amount of water control and over-quota progressive price increase system, improve water use efficiency, and promote the sustainable use of water resources.
He also said that it is necessary to continue to promote the comprehensive reform of agricultural water prices, implement total agricultural water use control and quota management, and establish and improve the agricultural water price formation mechanism and precise subsidy mechanism.
Actively and steadily promote the confirmation of water rights, cultivate and develop water markets, carry out water rights transactions between counties, promote the transfer of water resources from low-efficiency areas to high-efficiency areas, improve water-saving system standards, strengthen water-saving supervision and management, and make Water conservation has truly become a prerequisite for the development, utilization, protection, allocation and dispatch of water resources.
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