The ministries of environmental protection, land and resources, and water resources announced last Friday that the State Council has already approved a national plan on groundwater pollution control for 2011-2020. Zhao Hualin is a senior pollution control official with the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
"Under the plan, China will form a general understanding of the country's groundwater pollution situation and preliminarily bring the sources of groundwater pollution under control by 2015. Furthermore, the country aims to fully monitor the typical sources of groundwater pollution and to make the safety of essential underground drinking water sources well protected by 2020."
According to a nationwide monitoring study carried out by the Min
