source:website of Ministry of water agency editor in charge:sang Xiaoting

On September 29, the Ministry of water resources, together with the development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of finance, the health and Health Commission and the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council, jointly held a meeting to promote the safety of rural drinking water in order to thoroughly implement the relevant decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation, and ensure that the goals and tasks of consolidating and improving rural drinking water safety are fully completed by the end of the year. Tian Xuebin, Vice Minister of water resources, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

Tian Xuebin conveyed the instruction requirements of minister e Jingping on "re strengthening the rural drinking water safety work in poor areas, re compacting the key work such as water fee collection, and ensuring the completion of various objectives and tasks with quality and quantity before the end of the year", deeply analyzed the achievements, existing risks and weak links of rural drinking water safety and poverty alleviation, and proposed the next step based on the problem Work measures and requirements.

Tian Xuebin stressed that there are only more than 90 days left before the end of the year, with tight time and heavy tasks, we must do a solid job in all aspects of work: first, we should complete the tasks of consolidation and improvement, improvement of brackish water and improvement of drinking water containing excessive fluoride. For the rural water supply projects affected by flood and waterlogging, all localities should pay close attention to and properly solve the problems, without affecting the effectiveness of poverty alleviation. Second, we should strengthen investigation and monitoring to consolidate the achievements in poverty alleviation. After the "11th" plan, the Ministry of water resources once again organized a certain scale and focused secret inspection and supervision to urge all localities to strengthen and reinforce the achievements of rural drinking water safety and poverty alleviation. Third, all parties should strengthen supervision. To promote the "three responsibilities" and "three systems", the Ministry of water resources will take hard and practical measures to force all localities to strengthen the implementation of responsibilities. Fourth, we should improve the water price mechanism and highlight the collection of water charges. It is necessary to make sure that the target task of collecting water charges will be completed on schedule by the end of this year. It is necessary to take the collection of water charges as one of the key points of strengthening supervision and management, and we should seriously pursue and hold accountable for the behaviors such as failing to complete the target tasks on time and practicing fraud. Fifth, establish emergency mechanism to ensure emergency water supply. Under the emergency situation, the emergency plan should be improved and the safety of water supply should be strengthened. Sixth, it is necessary to unblock the reporting channels and play a role step by step. It is necessary to timely check the rural drinking water problems reported by the masses and media exposure, and pay close attention to the rectification. Seventh, we should plan for long-term development and support the strategy of Rural Revitalization. According to the overall plan of promoting the Rural Revitalization step by step, scientifically plan the long-term development of rural water supply, prepare the "fourteenth five year plan", and constantly improve the level of rural water supply security.

At the meeting, the rural water conservancy and hydropower Department of the Ministry of water resources reported the problems related to rural water supply. The relevant responsible comrades of the water conservancy (water affairs) departments of six provinces (autonomous regions), including Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Henan, Hunan, Hainan and Qinghai, reported on the rural drinking water safety work. The Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission and the Pearl River Water Conservancy Commission reported the contact work of rural drinking water safety.

The meeting was held in the form of video. The Ministry of water resources, the development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of finance, the health and Health Commission, the relevant departments and bureaus of the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council, and the responsible comrades and relevant personnel of relevant units directly under the Ministry of water resources attended the meeting at the main venue. Responsible comrades of relevant departments and relevant personnel attended the meeting at the local level of various river basin management institutions, 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government), Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, 832 national poverty-stricken counties and counties with excessive fluoride in drinking water and brackish water problems.