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BEIJING: One hundred and sixty million Chinese in rural areas will get clean and safe drinking water in the next five years, and all rural Chinese people will be provided with safe potable water to be funded by the Central Government by 2015, Minister of Water Resources Wang Shucheng told Xinhua on Monday. Currently, Mr. Wang said, 312 million Chinese villages are facing water shortages or unsafe water contaminated by fluorine, arsenic, high levels of salt or other organic or industrial pollutants. Although the budget had not been firmly set, the Minister said the country plans to invest 40 billion yuan over the next 10 years on safe water supply projects.

Xinhua

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