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Administrative Measures For The Water Supply In Rural Area Of Zhejiang Province

Original Language Title: 浙江省农村供水管理办法

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Rural water management approach in the province of Yangi

(Act dated 17 November 2012, No. 304 of the People's Government Order No. 304 of the Zangang Province, which came into force on 1 January 2013)

Chapter I General

Article 1, in order to regulate rural water supply management, ensure rural drinking water safety and develop this approach in line with laws, regulations and regulations such as the Water Act of the People's Republic of China, the Zangang Province Water Resources Protection Regulations.

Article 2 engages in rural water supply and the use of rural water and related management activities within the territorial administration.

Rural water supply works are public-private infrastructure. The municipalities, districts (markets, districts) and the people's governments should integrate rural water supplies into national economic and social development planning, promote rural and urban water integration, establish sound management mechanisms to promote rural water management and secure rural water. Rural water supply construction and drinking water safety are included in the responsibilities of all levels of the people's Government for a term of office.

Governments at all levels should increase their support for the construction and operation of rural water supply works, and encourage units and individuals to invest in the construction of rural water supplies.

Article 4

Relevant sectors such as development and reform, finance, housing and urban-rural construction, environmental protection, health and land resources are managed in rural areas in line with their responsibilities.

The communes (communes) Governments should be able to manage rural water in the current administrative region in accordance with the provisions and to identify the corresponding managers.

Article 5

Rural water supply units should establish a safe emergency response for water supply and report back to the Government of the commune (communes) and the territorial Government's water administration authorities. Of these, the Water Security Emergency Response Premier for the Extension of the Urban Water Supply Network is presented to the Urban Water Supply Administration.

Any units and individuals have the obligation to protect rural water sources, water supply works, and have the right to stop and report contaminated water quality, damage or damage to rural water supplies.

Chapter II Planning and construction

Article 7 Rural water development planning should be aligned with urban and rural planning and land-use overall planning.

The approved rural water development planning needs to be modified and approved in accordance with the original approval process.

Rural water supply construction should be in line with rural water development planning, with priority being given to rural and urban integration and the production of water supplies.

Article 8

Rural water construction can be obtained by means of allocation. The use of collective land in accordance with the law should not be imposed and should be reimbursed with local compensation by consensus with the rural collective economic organization.

Article 9. Rural water construction should be designed or implemented in accordance with national provisions, with the development of the district-level people's government reform or approval by the water administration authorities.

The initial design or implementation of rural water supply works should include water purification and poisoning facilities and safety protection facilities. Of these, more than 1,000 tons of water or more than 1 million rural water supply works should be established, with the corresponding water quality laboratory facilities.

Article 10 Rural water supply works should be evaluated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and the province. The design, construction and construction of rural water works should be implemented in national and provincial technical standards, norms and related provisions.

The facilities and facilities used in water supply works should be consistent with the requirements of national product quality standards.

The construction of a single village water supply works can be carried out under the guidance of professional technicians.

After the completion of the rural water supply works, inspection should be conducted in accordance with the relevant provisions. Unless experienced receipts or tests are not qualified, they cannot be formally used.

Article 11. Rural water supply works are eligible and the assets are processed after the relevant sector organizes cleaning and clear titles.

Rural water supply works determine ownership according to the following provisions:

(i) Government investment-building and ownership is owned by the State.

(ii) Funded by the Rural Collective Economic Organization, which is subsidized by the Government and is owned by the Rural Collective Economic Organization.

(iii) The co-investment of the Government, the Rural Collective Economic Organization, units (persons) and their ownership is jointly owned by investors on the basis of the proportion of contributions.

(iv) Investments by units (persons), government grants subsidies, which are owned by investors; units (persons) transfer rural water works, which are transferred to government investment funds.

Article 12 Rural Water Engineering Construction Units should compile information on engineering construction in a timely manner, establish the construction of the engineering archives and send the construction of the engineering archives to the territorial Government water administration within three months of the completion of the work. Of these, the construction of the extension of the urban water supply network is reported to the urban water supply administration authorities.

Article 13 Rural water supply works require funding from the rural collective economic organization and the financing of the villagers, and decisions should be taken in accordance with the provisions of the Village People's Conference or the meetings of villagers. The content of construction, financing, scope of benefits, pre-engineering should be shown.

Chapter III Water management

Article 14. The Urban Water Supply Network extends to the management of the urban water supply network, which is managed by urban water supply enterprises through the completion of the process.

Urban water supply enterprises shall not be charged to rural residents involved in the extension of the urban water supply network for costs such as leasing.

The water management of the extended work of the Urban Water Supply Network is implemented in accordance with the Urban Water Supply Management Approach in the Province of Yangangang.

Article 15. Rural water supply works are defined by all.

Rural water supply works can be managed and maintained by qualified professional management units, in accordance with the manner of separation of titles and the right to business. The specific form commissioned is determined by the owners of rural water supply works.

Article 16 states that the communes (communes, districts) should improve the socialization service system for the management of rural water supplies.

Support for rural water engineering conservation services provides operational management, facilities maintenance and operation and technical advisory services for rural water works such as single village water supplies.

Article 17 Rural water supply units should be equipped with the corresponding staff to carry out work such as water access, water quality testing, water facilities screening and conservation, ensuring the normal, safe operation of the facility and the authentic record of the day of operation; establishing a sound water supply file and identifying exclusive management.

Rural water quality should meet national standards for drinking water. The results of the rural water quality testing should be reported to the provincial-level Government's water administration and health administration authorities.

Article 18 prohibits direct pumping of pumps in water pipelines. The units prohibiting the production or use of toxic, hazardous substances directly link them to the rural water supply network.

Article 19 When the rural water supply unit takes over the water facility, the relevant units and individuals should be supported and cooperated without obstruction or interference.

Article 20 Rural water supply units should perform universal service obligations, giving priority to ensuring the availability of water for the rural population and not stop water supply.

For reasons such as the construction of water supply works or the screening of water facilities, a temporary cessation of water supply should be required, and the user should be informed 24 hours before the temporary cessation of water supply and reported to the commune and district-level government water administration authorities.

As a result of disasters or emergency accidents, early notices should be made available to users at the time of the renovation, to restore normal water as soon as possible and to report on the commune government and the territorial government water administration authorities.

For more than 24 hours, the rural water supply units should take the necessary emergency water supply measures to ensure the water needs of users.

Article 21 Rural Water Supply Construction in Rural Economies, and the Village People's Committee should regularly publish water prices and water payments to villagers.

In accordance with Article 22, the municipalities, districts (communes, districts) in the establishment of the Rural Water Engineering Maintenance Fund, which is specifically intended for the operation, maintenance and conservation of rural water supplies.

Rural water supply units should be charged with depreciation fees and major repairs in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and the province, with special accounts, earmarked for the upgrading of rural water supplies. No unit or person shall be diverted.

Article 23 of the rural water supply covers taxes on water resources, urban construction maintenance fees, education supplemental fees, sewage treatment, operating electricity and taxation, and is implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and the province.

Article 24 Training must not be charged.

Chapter IV Water management

Article 25.

Rural water prices are determined according to the following provisions:

(i) Rural water supply works in government investment construction and government pricing for water prices;

(ii) The use of other means of investment in construction of rural water supply works and the introduction of government guidance prices for water supplies, which are determined by the villagers' Committee, taking into account the Government's guidance, to convene villagers meetings or villagers' representatives meetings.

Rural water prices are established in accordance with the relevant provincial provisions.

Article 26

(i) The payment of royalties on time shall not be in arrears or denied payment;

(ii) No unauthorized change in the nature and use of water;

(iii) No unauthorized use or diversion of water to other units and individuals.

Article 27 users do not pay their fees on time, and the rural water supply units can send a reminder to the less-cost households, and the user has not been sent a water fee within 15 days of receipt of the reminder, and the rural water supply units can stop water supply. Prior to the cessation of water supply, rural water units should be informed in writing. The rural water supply units should resume water supply in a timely manner, after the user of the water supply ceased to pay the water price.

Rural water supply units shall not affect the water supply of other normal pay-burdens for less-cost households.

Article 28 provides special users, such as rural low-income households, with access to water water costs within the limits, and the specific water limit is determined by the territorial Government water authorities.

The list of farmers who are exempt from water payments should be made public.

Chapter V Security management

Article 29 provides that rural water sources are identified by the Government of the People's Government at the location (communes) and by the territorial Government's water administration authorities.

Rural water sources across the administrative region were identified by the relevant people's Government, in consultation with the Government of the people concerned.

Article 31: The size of the water supply is more than 200 tons of rural water sources, which are approved by the Government of the communes of the communes of the communes, including the environmental protection, by the Government of the communes (communes, districts) and the establishment of a warning signal:

(i) In small water banks, mountain ponds as water sources, their protection is limited to the small hydraulic and mountain ponds' catch-up area;

(ii) To use the river as a water source with the protection of watersheds of 1000 to 100 metres from the water point;

(iii) The scope of the protection of the water treasury area as a water source for large-scale water banks;

(iv) As water sources, their protection is limited to 50 metres at the centre of mining wells.

In rural water sources with less than 200 tons of water supply on a daily basis, the scope of protection is clear in accordance with the provisions of the Water Resources Protection Regulations in the Province of Yangangi.

Article 31 prohibits the following acts within the context of the protection of rural water sources:

(i) The laundering of containers and vehicles containing toxic hazardous items;

(ii) Use of high-exclusive and highly residue pesticides;

(iii) dumping of water bodies, garbage and sewage and other substances that may be contaminated with water;

(iv) Creation of poultry breeders, composts and toilets;

(v) Removal of waste and industrial wastes;

(vi) Aquaculture of artificial feeding;

(vii) Other activities that may contaminated water sources.

Article 32 does not engage in activities that may cause pollution and endanger the safety of water facilities.

Article 33 shall not engage in the following activities within the context of the safe protection of the water pipeline and its subsidiary facilities:

(i) Buildings, constructions;

(ii) Exhumation or exhumation of pits;

(iii) Spending or peaking;

(iv) Other activities that may damage water facilities or endanger the safety of water facilities.

Other floor lines should be constructed under the water pipeline and its subsidiary facilities or on the side, in line with relevant national and provincial technical standards and norms and in compliance with the relevant provisions of the management engineering planning and construction management.

Rural water pipelines and their safety coverage standards on the ground and land of their subsidiary facilities are implemented in the light of the technical norms of the National Urban Engineering Line.

Article 34 protects the environment, water administrative authorities should regularly monitor rural water sources in accordance with their respective responsibilities; it is found that abnormal conditions should be reported to the current Government and take effective measures to prevent the contamination of rural water sources.

Article XV of the Government's hygienic administrative authorities at the district level should regularly monitor access to water, water-making and water supply for rural water works and communicate the results in a timely manner to the water administration authorities; and ensure that water quality is not in accordance with the standards of drinking water, it should be inspected in accordance with the law of the sector and that the rural water supply units are urged to take the necessary measures to secure rural water supply.

Chapter VI Legal responsibility

Article 36, in violation of the provisions of this approach, provides for legal responsibility under the law, legislation and regulations.

Article 37 Rural Water Engineering Unit violates this approach by providing for the non-establishment of the construction of the engineering Archives, as well as the absence of a provision for the provision of a deadline for reimbursement by the water administration authorities or the urban water supply administration authorities; and the fine of up to 5,000 dollars over the period of time.

Article 338 contains one of the following conditions for the rural water supply unit, which is being rectified by an administrative authority responsible for water, and a fine of up to 20,000 dollars in excess of 2000:

(i) Water is not in line with the water quality requirements established by the State;

(ii) The unauthorized cessation of water supply or the non-performance of notification obligations;

(iii) Unless the provision for the screening of water supply facilities or the failure to organize delays in the delivery of water facilities in a timely manner.

Article 39 has one of the following cases, which are dealt with by the Water Administration in accordance with the following provisions:

(i) Theft of water supplies and the conversion of water charges, which could be fined by more than 5,000 dollars.

(ii) Removal of water for water, which is punishable by a fine of up to $300,000.

(iii) Direct pump pump pump pumps in water pipelines, which are correct and can be fined up to $200,000.

(iv) The production or use of toxic, hazardous substances units directly link their production, use of water pipelines with the rural water supply network to the immediate removal;

(v) To block or interfere with the renovation of the water supply facility, it is responsible for its correction, with a fine of up to 5,000 dollars.

Article 40, in violation of article 31, paragraph (vi), of this approach, provides for a aquaculture of artificial feeding, to be converted by the Government of the commune (communes); a fine of up to $50 million over the overdue period of uncorrected.

In addition to the previous provision, in violation of article 31 of this approach, the environmental administration of the communes (communes) or of the communes' government is dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Water Resources Conservation Regulations of the Zang Province.

Article 40 states that:

(i) The urban water supply company, in violation of this approach, provides for the payment of fees to rural residents;

(ii) The water supply unit violates the provisions of this approach.

Article 42, in violation of article 32 of this approach, article 33, provides that activities that may result in pollution, damage to water supply facilities or endanger the safety of water facilities are subject to the responsibility of the water administration authorities to put an end to the offence and may be fined by more than 5,000 dollars, resulting in losses and compensated by law.

Article 43

(i) No regular monitoring of rural water sources by law;

(ii) Health monitoring is not carried out in accordance with the law on access to water, water-making and water supply;

(iii) To collect training costs in violation of this approach;

(iv) Failure to carry out supervisory responsibilities under the law, resulting in rural water supply works that are not functioning properly and have serious consequences;

(v) There are other acts of negligence, abuse of authority, provocative fraud.

Chapter VII

Article 44 states that rural water is referred to as the use of public water pipelines and their subsidiary facilities to provide life, production and other water activities for rural residents and units, including the extension of the urban water supply network, urban concentration of water supplies or the concentration of water, single villages.

This approach refers to the provision of water for single villages, either in the administrative village or in the natural village, which consists of independent water sources, clean water works and the distribution of water pipelines.

Article 42