Enhancing Water Stewardship in China
In the last few years, we have launched several programs in
China to help raise awareness about the importance of water
stewardship and inspire action in communities.
Our community water initiatives in China are diverse and widespread,
reaching people in cities and rural villages across the country. Beginning
in 2005, we partnered with the Beijing Organizing Committee of the
Olympic Games, the Beijing Youth League, the Beijing Young Pioneers
and the First News newspaper to start a city-wide education campaign
for 100,000 students and their families to "Save a Barrel of
Water." The program has expanded to reach approximately 150,000
students in 15 cities.
Another initiative we joined in 2008 is the "Water Resources
Management and Drinking Water Safety in Rural Regions of China,"
the first public-private partnership among the United Nations Development
Programme; the Ministry of Water Resources; the China International
Center for Economic and Technical Exchange; and our Company. This
project will establish four demonstration sites in the water-stressed
provinces of Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang and Liaoning.
The four-year, $6.7 million project aims to improve the quality
of drinking water and drinking water conditions in rural
areas; improve water treatment; strengthen water resource
conservation; and promote ecological restoration and the
development of ecological agriculture.
The project will pilot improvement programs in four schools along
the Yangtze River, where there is currently a lack of basic sanitation
and clean running water.
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