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China – Pilot Program to Renovate Rural School Toilets

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — The Chinese government has launched a program to improve sanitation and hygiene facilities using green technologies in rural schools. The program, jointly initiated by...

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China Offers Plan to Clean Up Its Polluted Lakes

HONG KONG (23 Jan 2008) — The Chinese government unveiled a detailed plan on Tuesday to limit pollution in China’s lakes by 2010 and return them to their original state by 2030.The State Council,...

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China –‘Toilet-to-tap’ coming to China, professor says

WASHINGTON DC — In 2010 China will embrace “toilet-to-tap” water treatment technology, predicts Xia Siqing, an environmental science professor at Tongji University in Shanghai and former visiting...

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China cracks down on water polluters with new law

28 Feb 2008 11:15:49 GMT Source: Reuters BEIJING, Feb 28 (Reuters) – China heightened pressure on polluters on Thursday, passing legislation that allows for stiff fines against heads of companies that...

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China: Rising Eco-Town Boasts “No-Flush Toilets”

A big housing development project is bringing ecological sanitation toilets that do not require water, to a water-scarce municipality in the northern region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The...

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China: Which toilet to use? Squat vs sit-down in Beijing

BEIJING – Among all the protests, pollution concerns and talk of boycotts surrounding the Beijing Olympics, a more basic problem has arisen for organizers: the toilets. At the more than 30 test events...

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China – Red Cross delivers clean water, sanitation to townships

The International Red Cross movement is mounting a major effort to provide clean water and sanitation facilities to quake-hit townships in Sichuan’s Mianzhu prefecture as part of ongoing work to...

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China: Beijing enlists Olympic size toilet army

By AMANDA L. PENTLER, Tuesday, June 24th 2008, 12:04 PM Beijing has dispatched 8,000 personnel for a mass toilet maintenance staff, and each will be responsible for a specific restroom in the city...

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China – Plans to conduct China’s rural pollution survey

When the central government announced plans to conduct China’s first rural pollution survey last December, some took it as a sign that the authorities were serious about tackling the serious issue. And...

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China: sewage plant study raises concerns

Many water treatment facilities in China are failing to remove toxic organic chemicals and levels of some chemicals are actually increasing during treatment, according to researchers from Nankai...

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Congo: Red Cross sets sights on cholera

The lack of clean drinking water and proper hygiene fuelled the spread of cholera in the south and southwest of the Republic of Congo [Brazzaville], says the Congolese Red Cross, which has just...

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China, Beijing: all sewage to be reused within three years

The Beijing Sewage Association [said] that within three years, all water processed in the city’s sewage treatment plants will meet requirements for reuse. The annual capacity of Beijing’s nine sewage...

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China: Toilet relief for Shanghai’s World Expo

Shanghai has sought to reassure visitors to next year’s World Expo that they can expect relief from the city’s sometimes foul public toilets. The city will clean up and renovate more than 5,200 public...

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China, Fujian province: protesters kick up stink at Chinese sewage works

Protests drawing up to 10,000 people flared in eastern China over a powerful stench from a sewage treatment plant with 10 people hurt in clashes, residents and a human rights monitor said [on 1...

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Long march ahead for China’s toilet revolution

BEIJING : When China opened its doors to the world decades ago, there was one area that was crucial to modernising its image – its public toilets. Toilets in China used to be so notorious that...

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China, Ningbo: World Bank loan addresses rural waste water management

The World Bank has approved a loan of $50 million to China to improve rural wastewater management and township infrastructure in Ningbo Municipality. Ningbo Municipality is a major city in the...

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China, Wuhan: ADB supports wastewater and lake management project

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting an urban environmental initiative in Wuhan municipality in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that it says could be a model for sustainable management...

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China – Street food blamed for cholera outbreak in Anhui

Some 30 people have been infected with cholera in Mengcheng county, East China’s Anhui province, since Aug 16, most after eating at local street food stalls, local health authorities said. Over the...

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Smart, eco-friendly sanitation for all in China, lessons for India

Invest in sanitation and wastewater, make treated wastewater available for reuse in urban areas and reduce the GDP loss due to bad health and disease which bad sanitation brings. These are the lessons...

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Educational cartoon boosts worm infection prevention

Cover of the Cartoon “The Magic Glasses. Educational cartoon boosts worm infection prevention | Source: News-Medical, Apr 29, 2013 | Researchers in China have found that a health education package...

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