New standards are being formulated urgently. Every aspect of drinking water safety must not be neglected.

In recent years, with the joint efforts of many parties, through measures such as building new centralized water supply facilities, upgrading water plant processes, and strengthening water quality testing and monitoring, the drinking water quality in most areas of our country has also been improved. Significant improvement.

Despite this, overall, my country still has problems such as hidden risks in centralized drinking water sources in cities and shortcomings in the protection of rural drinking water sources. It is understood that the proportion of water that meets sanitary standards in our country is small, and the seriousness of industrial pollution has further aggravated the urgency of drinking water safety. In addition, drinking water monitoring and water supply equipment management need to be further improved and standardized.

Based on this, in 2018, the National Health Commission launched the revision of drinking water hygiene standards and decided to promulgate and implement new drinking water hygiene standards in 2020.

In July 2019, Shi Xiaoming, director of the Environmental Institute of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that this revision of the standard introduced a new testing method, while retaining the basic characteristics of water. At the same time as the indicators, priority should be given to including the correct indicators of health hazards, especially the epidemiology of the population, into the standards.

Including rural drinking water sources into the scope of supervision is a highlight of the new standards. Tian Xuebin, deputy minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, said at the meeting that one of the important tasks this year and next is to improve the water supply guarantee level for 60 million rural people, solve problems such as substandard water quantity and excessive fluoride, and establish a reasonable water price formation and water fee collection Mechanisms, new standards to improve rural drinking water safety levels, etc., so that people can drink safe water.

Water is the source of life, and everyone cannot do without water in their daily life. In addition to national policy support and standards, in terms of drinking water safety, everyone should improve their own awareness of healthy drinking water and water use, and can take corresponding water purification measures to encourage and support qualified households to use water purifiers, which is also a guarantee for drinking water. As a major safety measure, Shi Xiaoming pointed out at the meeting that the use of water purifiers can further improve the quality of our drinking water.

When it comes to water purifiers, our country implemented the national standard "Water Efficiency Limits and Water Efficiency Levels of Reverse Osmosis Water Purifiers" at the end of 2018, which sets the water purification and water production standards. The red line of efficiency to help the water purification equipment industryDespite the reshuffle, the penetration rate of water purifiers in my country is lower than other countries, only 10%, which shows that the awareness of healthy drinking water among Chinese residents still needs to be improved.

From the above point of view, ensuring the safety of drinking water is not only a major national prevention and control issue, but also a daily concern that residents should pay attention to. Initiate drinking water hygiene monitoring work, carry out special inspections of drinking water in key river basins, revise drinking water standards, and guide the public's healthy drinking and water use. From the support of policies, standards, and technology to the residents themselves to improve their awareness of healthy drinking water, this is a whole system process, any link in drinking water safety is related to people's health, and the management of each link must be further refined.

Ensuring the safety of drinking water in cities and rural areas is an urgent matter that is related to people’s livelihood.

　(Original title: New standards are being formulated urgently, and every aspect of drinking water safety must not be missed)