The Ministry of Ecology and Environment assesses the water environment situation in the first half of the year

In the first half of 2021, among the 3641 national surface water evaluation and assessment sections, the proportion of sections of Class Ⅰ-Ⅲ was 81.7%, an increase of 1.1 percentage points year-on-year; the proportion of Class Ⅴ sections was 1.9%, a decrease of 0.7 percentage points year-on-year. The overall national water environment quality continued to improve. However, at the same time, the unbalanced and uncoordinated problems in water ecological environment protection are still prominent, and problems such as water quality deterioration in some areas cannot be ignored. Nationwide, water quality of Class Ⅴ national control sections (excluding sections affected by natural factors) is distributed in 16 provinces. Among them, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Yunnan, and Shanxi provinces (regions) have a relatively large number, accounting for 62% of the national total. The Gongzhuling section of the Xinkai River in Jilin Province has had Class Ⅴ water quality for six consecutive months this year. (See Appendix 1) Nationwide, there are 25 national control sections with significantly deteriorated water quality year-on-year, distributed in 12 provinces. Among them, Shanxi has 7, Henan has 4, and Shaanxi has 3. The three provinces account for 56% of the national total number of sections with significantly deteriorated water quality. (See Appendix 2) In response to the above prominent problems, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has issued warning letters to relevant provincial ecological environment departments and organized the basin bureaus to conduct independent investigations into problems with three or more warnings, urging and guiding local governments to investigate the underlying causes of the problems and earnestly promote solutions. For prominent problems that have been delayed for a long time, relevant clues will be promptly transferred to the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection. Appendix 1 Water quality conditions in various provinces and regions across the country in the first half of 2021 Appendix 2 List of sections with significantly deteriorated water quality in the first half of 2021

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