(Adopted by the 115th ordinary meeting of the Government of Japan, 29 September 2012 at the fourteenth session of the People's Government of Japan, 12 October 2012 No. 163, Publication, 1 January 2013,

Chapter I General

Article 1 provides for the rational use of water resources and the construction of a water-based society, in line with the relevant laws, regulations and regulations, such as the People's Republic of China Water Act, to develop this approach in the light of the actual practice of the city.

Article 2 uses water engineering facilities directly from rivers, lakes or land, and units using public facilities for water supply, personal savings for water and their monitoring management in all administrative areas.

This approach refers to the use of means such as administrative, technical, economic, etc. to implement water management, adapt the water-use structure and improve the means of water use, reduce loss and waste (contambing) water emissions, avoid waste of water resources, and to activities aimed at achieving rational control of the overall water use and water efficiency.

Article III. Water-saving practices that are consistent with the economic development and water environment and the ability to deliver water resources, implement the principles of integrated land surface water and groundwater control development, integration of sources and streams, priority drainage and wastewater treatment.

Article IV. The municipal water administration authorities are responsible for the integrated management of water conservation throughout the city, with water-saving management agencies specifically responsible for the development, development of water-saving policies, planning, standards and monitoring, organizational implementation and guidance on the day-to-day management of water-based social construction.

The water administration authorities are responsible for the management of water conservation in the current administrative area (zone, stream new areas, with the same) for water management.

Relevant sectors such as development reform, planning, housing, environmental protection and quality technical supervision are jointly managed to achieve water efficiency management in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

Article 5 has an industrial policy conducive to water savings, the establishment of government water-saving mechanisms for promoting, market orientation, public participation, the construction of water-efficient societies, the development and development of water-efficient industries, agriculture and services, and the limitation of the development of high-cost and high-polluted industries.

Research, development and application of water-saving technologies are encouraged and supported to promote new water-saving technologies, new processes, new equipment and new products.

Article 6 implements the responsibility for water-saving targets and the appraisal system.

The objectives and measures for water-saving work in the city, the district (zone) are integrated into the planning, annual plan for economic and social development of the same-level people's national population.

The achievement of water-saving targets is a component of the municipal government's assessment of district and district governments.

Article 7. Governments at all levels should conduct extensive water-saving advocacy and education, universal access to water-saving scientific knowledge, integration of water-saving knowledge into national education and training systems and increase awareness of water for all. Any unit and individual should fulfil their obligation to save water in accordance with the law and have the right to inspect waste of water and damage to the water environment.

Article 8 provides recognition and incentives for units and individuals that contribute significantly to water efficiency.

Chapter II Water management

Article 9. Execution of the overall control system for water use at the regional and industrial levels. The city, the district (zone) organizes water administration authorities and relevant sectors to develop water allocation programmes, science-based water resources, disaggregated by level of water use, as required by regional functional location and industrial sustainable development.

Article 10 The municipal water administration authorities should prepare water-saving planning throughout the city and seek advice from the relevant sector, which is organized after the approval of the Government.

Water-saving planning should include water resources and their development of the status quo, water potential, objectives, mandates and measures.

Article 11 incorporates units and individuals subject to the water licence management and shall submit to the municipal water administrative authorities, by 31 December of each year, the annual statement of water access statistics and the recommendations for the next annual water use plan. The municipal water administration authorities shall make annual water use plans by 31 January of the next year, and consign the water administration authorities in the district (zone).

Article 12. The units and individuals using urban public water supply (excluding the households of the population) should develop water use plans based on water specifications, be approved by municipal or district water administration authorities, whose implementation is evaluated on a monthly basis by the water-saving management; and the relocation of water units and individuals within the city's administration should be made in a timely manner to the municipal or district water administration authorities for approval of the water use plan.

In accordance with Article 11, Article 12 of this approach, units and individuals that have planned water management must be taken in accordance with approved plans for water or water use, over-planned or over-directed water or water, and the water administration is charged by the water administration authorities in excess of part-time water costs, in accordance with the following provisions:

(i) The excess plan or the excess of 10 per cent, which is covered by the water resource or water cost;

(ii) The excess plan or the excess of 10 per cent (excluding) to 20 per cent, and the collection of two times the water resources or water charges;

(iii) The excess plan or the excess of 20 per cent (excluding) to 30 per cent, with three times the receipt of water resources or water charges;

(iv) Over 30 per cent (non-concluded) of the superplanet or more than 30 per cent of the excess, with four times higher rates in accordance with water resources or water charges.

Article 14.

Article 15. Water should be measured, paid.

Including the water licence management units and the urban public water supply units should install water measurement facilities to strengthen the screening and daily maintenance of water measurement facilities, to ensure accuracy and to conduct regular school tests for water measurement facilities, to detect failure or damage to water measurement facilities, and to test repairs or replacements in a timely manner.

Water access, water units and individuals should be aligned with the screening schedules, fees work of the staff of the water administration or water supply units.

Access to water, water units and individuals without water measurement facilities or inadequate operating facilities are installed by water administrative authorities.

Article 16 provides that more than two types of water properties of urban water supply units require the implementation of different water prices and that water measurement facilities should be installed in accordance with different types of water use.

The water unit does not install water measurement facilities in accordance with different types of water nature, or has been able to change the water pipeline to avoid the classification of measurements and pay the highest standard of water prices in the unit's water properties category.

Article 17 units and individuals included in the water licence management shall be sent to the water administrative authorities responsible for the collection of water resources.

Urban public water providers should be sent to water users by month to the water administration authorities. The statistical offices should make disaggregated statistical data on water use with the same-level water administration and regularly disseminate water statistics.

The municipal and district (zone) water administration authorities should establish a water information system that regularly publishs regional and industrial water use, guides the industry's rationalbies and leads business units and social savings.

Chapter III Water management

Article 18 new construction, alteration, expansion projects directly capture water from rivers, lakes or land, and the development of construction units shall submit to the water administration authorities a project demonstration report on the construction of water resources at the time of the request for water licence clearance; no construction project is required for access to water licences, and the development of construction units shall submit to the receiving authority the project water resource logic report. Unless submitted to the construction of a project water resource argument report, the water administration authorities may not accept the application for water licence (previous).

The construction projects using the public pipeline water supply or refuelling water are being used by the water administration authorities to adjust the water demand for construction projects in line with the assessment results.

Article 19 Access to water, water units and individuals should be tested on a regular basis. The water administration authorities should provide technical guidance and review of the water balance testing process, and the problems identified by the review should be subject to measures by enterprises to resolve deadlines.

The new construction, alteration and expansion of construction projects should be accompanied by the design, parallel construction and parallel inputs.

Planning design units should be designed for the provision of water facilities in accordance with national water standards and norms, as well as separate documentation; construction map review units should strictly review water-related aspects. The water facility design programme should be submitted to the water administration authorities for clearance, without clearance or clearance by the water administration authorities, and the construction project's single document shall not serve as a basis for the granting of follow-up licences such as construction planning licences.

After the completion of the water facility, construction units should be declared to the water administration authorities. Unless experienced receipts or tests are not qualified, construction projects cannot be used, and water administration authorities do not approve water indicators and water supply units may not supply water.

The water facilities referred to in this approach include water tanks, processes, equipment, measurement facilities, re-entry systems and rainwater harvesting systems.

Article 21, the development reform sector should work with the water administration authorities to guide the industrial direction in accordance with the portfolio of investment-led investments in the water industry and to impose strict restrictive measures on the project on a directory of investment in the high-energy industry.

Article 2 establishes a system of water-saving standards, strict implementation of national standards and industry standards for water-saving, and encourages businesses to develop business standards that are stricter to national standards, industry standards and local standards.

Article 23 encourages the use of advanced water technologies and water products to increase the number of cyclical water use and to increase water use rates. A phase-out system was put in place for products, equipment and processes that are lagging behind and are high.

The production, importation, sale and use of products, equipment included in the phase-out catalogue are prohibited and the use of the process of phasing out the catalogue is prohibited.

Article 24 governs the progressive implementation of the marking management of water use products in accordance with the relevant national provisions. Prohibition of production and marketing does not meet the mandatory water standards. It is prohibited to provide false publicity for the forged, the use of the water efficiency mark or the use of the water efficiency mark.

Article 25 encourages the development of water-based agriculture. The urban agricultural sector should promote water-efficient, high-efficient crop and other agricultural projects, in accordance with local water resources conditions, and optimize agricultural planting structures.

Regions (zones) should guide agricultural production operators and individuals to rationalize crop cultivation structures in accordance with the water resources situation within this administrative region, develop high-efficiency-efficient agriculture, limit and reduce the size of water-efficient crop cultivation.

Article 26 Industry, drain pumping stations implement technological upgrading, and the cultivation industry should take channels to prevent infiltration, plumbing water and reduce the loss of irrigation water and increase the efficient use of irrigation water.

Article 27 improves the extension and socialization of water-saving technologies in agriculture, and promotes, on a ground-friendly basis, water irrigation methods and technologies, such as inclination, dripping, and gradually replaces high-cost irrigation practices such as rice.

Article 28 encourages units and individuals to invest in building agricultural water facilities. Water-saving measures for agricultural water-saving projects and agricultural development projects should be prioritized.

Article 29 Industrial construction projects should be adapted to local water resource conditions, limiting the development of high-energy industries in water scarcity areas.

Article 33 Industrial enterprises should strengthen the management of water within enterprises, establish water-saving management systems and build water-based enterprises.

Industrial enterprises should use advanced technologies, equipment and processes to adopt measures such as cyclical water use, integrated use and wastewater treatment, to reduce water consumption and to increase water use. In industrial enterprises where water is spent more than the amount of water supply, water administration authorities may not approve new water use or plan water indicators.

Article 33 Industrial enterprises should use water-saving equipment, processes and technologies to reduce water consumption. Equipment, processes and technologies are not in line with water demand and should be technologically adapted.

Industrial enterprises should take efficient and water-based refrigeration. Indirect refrigeration should be used.

The new construction, alteration and expansion of public and civilian buildings should be installed in Article III. Public and civilian buildings have not been installed in the use of hydro machines, which should be installed within the time specified by the water administration authorities.

Synergy such as catering, recreation, hotels should be used to use energy, water, energy and technology, equipment and facilities conducive to the protection of the environment.

Article 33 encourages and supports the development of non-conventional water sources such as refuelling and rainwater. The development of non-conventional water sources should be integrated into water-saving planning.

Renewable water treatment facilities and pipeline networks should be constructed in conjunction with urban sewerage facilities. The use of renewable water should be given priority. Areas in conditions should build water ground and rainwater harvesting and utilization facilities when building new areas, rehabilitating old cities and building municipal infrastructure.

Water units providing washing services should build cyclical water facilities; refuelling should be used in the area covered by the refuelling water pipeline.

Article 34 Greenization in urban parks should be used in the form of water irrigation, such as spraying, dripping, and prohibiting the use of high-cost irrigation methods, such as rice turmoil. The greening of water scarcity areas should be elected to use drought-resistant trees, grasss, limiting large-scale landscape water.

Areas that can be used for refuelling may restrict or prohibit access to water, subsistence and quality surface water as urban roads, urban greening and landscape water use.

Article XV should oversee the operation of the public water system.

Water-water enterprises and units that build water supply facilities should strengthen the maintenance of water supply facilities, prevent waste of water resources, such as runways, drips, leakage, and reduce the loss rate of water supply networks.

Article 36, in areas covered by the Public Water Supply Network, areas where surface water can be used, such as water banks, rivers, and areas where no groundwater resource contamination measures and facilities are prevented, such as firefighting, drought-resistant, construction safety, emergency water access, ground temperature water and water special requirements for water quality, such as mining springs, geothermal temperatures, may be used by law, and other groundwater-based construction works should be closed without new water supplies.

The commune, district (zone) financial sector should arrange dedicated water funds to support the development of water technology research, the demonstration and diffusion of water technology and products, the implementation of priority water works, water awareness training, information services and water management incentives.

Article 338 develops non-conventional water use projects such as the production, use of water technologies and products included in the section of water technology and the regeneration of water products, and implements enabling policies such as tax incentives.

Financial subsidies are granted to units and individuals promoting the use of irrigation technologies and products in agricultural festivals.

Chapter IV Oversight inspection

Article 39, the water administration authorities should perform their duties in accordance with the law and strengthen the monitoring of water efficiency. Once the waste discovered is processed in a timely manner and may reduce the next year's water use targets, as required by the overall control of water; joint inspections should be carried out in collaboration with the relevant sectors.

Article 40 The right to take the following measures when the water-saving inspector performs oversight duties:

(i) Access to field inspections to investigate the situation;

(ii) To request clarifications from inspection units or individuals on water-saving-related issues;

(iii) To request the inspectorate or the individual to provide documents, photographs, information and reproduction;

(iv) The duty of the inspectorate or the individual to put an end to the offence and to fulfil its statutory obligations.

The supervisory inspector should present administrative law enforcement documents when carrying out oversight duties. The relevant units or individuals should cooperate in the supervision of inspections and should not be denied or obstructed.

Article 40 encourages units and individuals to report waste of water to the water administration authorities or to the water law enforcement authorities, and the authorities should be surveyed in a timely manner when they are reported.

The relevant sectors that have been reported should be confidential and rewarded by the reportingers for reporting of actual and critical waste of water.

The water administration authorities should make the reports available on telephones, boxes or e-mail addresses.

Chapter V Legal responsibility

Article 42, in violation of article 11 of the present approach, includes units and individuals subject to water licence management that are not reported to be taken up for the annual harvesting of water according to the provision, are supplemented by a deadline for the issuance of the water administrative authority, which is not submitted within the deadline of up to 2,000 yen; and, in the event of serious circumstances, the release of water licences.

Article 43, in violation of article 15 of this approach, stipulates that the duration of the measurement facility is not installed, the time limit shall be installed and the payment of water resources in accordance with the criteria for the collection of water and water resources based on the best available water capacity, shall be subject to a fine of up to 5,000 yen; and, in the event of serious circumstances, the release of water licences.

Measuring facilities are not qualified or operated in a normal manner, with the time limit being replaced or rehabilitated; the late replacement or non-recovery of water charges based on the criteria for the collection of water and water resources at the maximum of the day's water capacity, which can be fined by less than one million dollars; and, in the event of serious circumstances, the release of water licences.

In violation of article 16, paragraph 2, of this approach, the water unit has been forced to change the water pipeline and to avoid the classification of measurements, which is being converted by the water administration authorities, with a fine of up to $300,000.

Article 42, in violation of article 17, paragraph 1, and paragraph 2, of this approach, includes units and individuals subject to water licence management, as well as urban public water companies that have not sent water to the water administration authorities for a monthly period of time and actual water or material, and are converted by the water administrative authorities to a period of up to 1,000 yen.

Article 46, in violation of article 20 of this approach, provides that the construction, alteration and expansion of construction projects are not built or used to meet national requirements, self-in inputs and are discontinued by the water administration authorities, the period of time being converted and fines of over 50,000 dollars.

Article 47, in violation of article 23, paragraph 2, of the scheme, stipulates that the production, sale or use of state orders in the manufacture of a production operation shall be phased out, laged, consuming high-water processes, equipment and products, and shall be subject to an end to production, sale or use by the integrated authorities of the local people's government at the district level, with a fine of over 20,000 dollars.

Article 48 of the water administration or other relevant departments and their staff members have one of the following acts, which are governed by the law by their units, superior authorities or supervisors of the authority responsible for direct responsibility and other direct responsibilities; and which constitutes a crime, criminal liability is held by law:

(i) Review of the agreed opinion with regard to the programme of water measures that are not in accordance with statutory conditions;

(ii) No annual water access plan, as mandated;

(iii) mandatory access to water units or individuals to purchase, use specific water products or equipment;

(iv) The failure to perform oversight duties and the finding that the offence is not investigated;

(v) Other abuses of authority, omissions, provocative fraud.

Article 49 violates the provisions of this approach, and other laws and regulations impose penalties.

Annex VI

Article 50 of this approach is implemented effective 1 January 2013. The water-saving management approach in the city of Ben stream was enacted on 25 October 1995 (No.