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Administrative Measures On Water Conservation In Suzhou City

Original Language Title: 苏州市节约用水管理办法

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(Adopted by the 61th Standing Committee of the People's Government of the State of Sus Republic of 31 July 2006 No. 92 of the People's Government Order No. 92 of 15 August 2006 on 1 October 2006)

Article 1 provides for the rational use and protection of water resources to enhance water efficiency management, in accordance with the laws, regulations, such as the Water Act of the People's Republic of China, the Water Resources Management Regulations of the Province of Susang Province.
Article II applies to the management of water and planned water resources within the city's administrative region (hereinafter referred to as water-saving).
Article 3. Municipal and district-level municipalities, sector-wide governments should strengthen leadership in water-saving efforts, establish sound water-saving management structures, integrate water-saving efforts into national economic and social development planning, increase the investment in water-saving science and technology research and development of equipment, and increase the level of water-saving science management.
Article IV regulates and guides in the management and direction of water-saving within the current administrative system, both at the municipal and district levels, and in the district-level administration.
The municipal water-saving management authorities are entrusted by the municipal water-saving administrative authorities with operational guidance for water-saving work across the city as well as the day-to-day management of water-saving efforts in urban areas; the district and district water-saving management agencies are responsible for the day-to-day management of water-saving efforts within the current administrative area, in accordance with the division of duties.
Development and reform, joint water-saving-related work in sectors such as UNCTAD, construction, finance, quality, business, planning, goods, urban governance, agroforestry, parking and greenization.
Article 5 Saving water follows the principles of integrated planning, total control, targeted water, integrated use, and efficiency.
Saving water use is managed by users and residents. The user of the unit implements the water management that is planned to be combined with the level of measurement; and the resident life users are gradually implementing targeted water management.
Article 6. Urban development planning, major construction projects, industrial restructuring and urban construction should fully take into account water resources delivery capacity and strictly control high-energy projects.
Article 7. Governments at all levels should promote water-saving education and increase awareness of water for all.
The executive authorities for water-saving should develop awareness programmes for water-saving and conduct regular advocacy activities.
The media should actively conduct public information on water-saving.
Article 8. Any unit and individuals have the obligation to save water and have the right to stop and report violations of water management.
units and individuals that have made significant achievements in water-saving efforts are recognized and rewarded by all levels of the people's governments and the administrative authorities for water-saving.
Article 9. Urban water-saving planning is developed by the municipal water-saving administrative authorities, implemented with the approval of the Government of the city and reported to the provincial authorities for water savings.
The district-level city-level water-saving administrative authorities should prepare water-saving planning for the current administrative region, with the approval of the Government of the same people and report on the municipal water-saving administrative authorities.
Article 10 Governments at all levels should put in place dedicated funding for water-saving, with dedicated funds for water-saving.
Article 11. Water-saving administrative authorities organize annual water plans to control annual water use in accordance with the annual national economic and social development plan, water-saving planning, water resources and water demand and water availability.
Water units using self-construction facilities directly from surfaces, access to water or the use of public water supply are included in the management of water plans.
Article 12. The water-saving management shall, in accordance with the annual water use plan, the industrial water purification and the actual water needs of the water unit, approve the quarterly, monthly water indicators of the water use unit and conduct regular inspections.
The water unit needs to adapt water indicators due to changes in water demand, which are appropriately adapted by the water-saving management authorities on the basis of actual circumstances.
Article 13 uses a superplane system for water use.
1 per cent of the use of public water over-pland water by water units is received by one of the more than 1 per cent of the current water prices; more than 1 per cent of the less than 21 per cent is 2 per cent; more than 21 per cent is received by three times; more than 31 per cent of the less than 31 per cent is received by 4 times; more than 31 per cent of the 31% share is 5 times higher.
The water unit using self-construction facilities directly from the surface and underground water is implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions.
Unpaid premiums were overdue, laged on a daily basis and reduced the next year water indicators.
Article 14. Water units should strengthen water efficiency management, establish a sound water-saving management system, implement sector-specific and exclusive responsibility for water-saving efforts, provide statistics on water-saving efforts, and provide timely and accurate water-saving statistical statements.
The water units, such as the property management unit, the home property owner, should be strengthened in the maintenance and management of water facilities, equipment and equipment, and intrusive measures to reduce leakage rates.
The owner or manager of the firefighting, sanitation facilities should strengthen the management of water facilities to prevent water intrusion, loss or use.
Article 15. Water units should adopt water-saving measures, such as recycling water, multi-use use, to increase water use rates.
The refrigeration of equipment, air conditioning and refrigeration of water, and the refrigeration of stoves should be used in a cycle that should be consistent with national standards.
The use of cyclical water and water-saving facilities should be installed in industries such as washing, swimming, water recreation.
Article 16 uses water units with more than 10,000 tons of water from the construction of water facilities or more than 20,000 tons of public water for the year, and shall conduct a water balance test every three to five years, and the water management body will guide and inspect the water balance testing process with the relevant sectors.
When the product structure or the production of water processes change, tests should be retested.
No water-balance testing has been provided to reduce their next year water indicators.
Article 17 Water units such as clean water (minal water) for major raw materials should be used to save water production processes and technologies, reduce consumption and increase the use of raw materials.
The rate of water shall not be less than 70 per cent of the raw materials, and the end-of-product water shall be recovered without direct emissions.
Article 18 Water-water enterprises should strengthen the inspection, maintenance of the Public Water Supply Network, avoid and reduce the loss of subsistence water, and the rate of failure should be controlled within national or industrial provisions.
Water-water businesses should regularly provide information on the actual water use of planned water units and the water use of users living in the population.
New construction, alteration and expansion projects require access to water and should develop water-saving programmes, undertake cost-saving water assessments, complement the construction of water-saving facilities consistent with national provisions, and be designed in parallel with the major engineering, while construction and operationalization.
The construction projects have not been accompanied by the construction of water-saving facilities, which should be accompanied by water-saving facilities within the time specified by the water-saving administrative authorities.
Water units should not stop the use of water-saving facilities that have been built.
Article 20, when developing construction work design mandates, the design of water-saving facilities should be clearly defined in the task book; the design units should be rigorously planned, designed in accordance with express content; and the construction units must strictly carry out construction in accordance with the design of water-saving facilities and ensure the quality of the construction of water facilities.
The water-saving facilities were completed and the water units should be completed within three months to receive the water-saving management for the water-saving management system.
Article 21 states specifying the phase-out of water processes, equipment, products, and shall cease production, sale or use in production.
Water units should update water processes, equipment, facilities and facilities that are lagging behind within the prescribed time frame.
Article 2 encourages the production of water products to be certified for water-saving products.
The municipal water-saving management body is responsible for providing guidance for the production of water.
Article 23. Water units should install, use water-saving water-efficient devices and non-saving water-saving water-efficient devices should be upgraded within the prescribed time frame.
Water-saving measures are encouraged for the living of the population to promote the use of water-efficient water-efficient devices.
Water units are encouraged to build water facilities that promote water use among units such as greening, sanitation and lagging.
The design and construction of urban sewerage facilities should be synchronized with the consideration of the integration of water facilities.
The water-saving administrative authorities should strengthen rainwater collection, development and development of use and pilot extension.
Units and individuals are encouraged to build and utilize rainwater harvesting facilities.
Article 25 Construction, such as greenfields and roads, should be promoted, used in low-lying law and intrusive water ground.
Greened water is spreading advanced water-saving technologies such as dripping, spraying.
Article 26 Governments at all levels should strengthen agricultural water management, develop agricultural development planning, adapt agricultural industrial structures and b bureaux, promote construction of agricultural water efficiency projects and develop water-saving agriculture.
Agricultural irrigation should be progressively directed at measuring water, using advanced water-efficient agricultural irrigation technologies such as pipelines, trajections, microbills, and increasing the use of irrigation water in agriculture.
Improving agricultural planting technologies, promoting water for biosaving and scale raising, and developing cycle ecological agriculture.
Article 27 provides that water for the inhabitants should be installed and the gradable water price is gradually being pursued.
Article twenty-eighth provides for the rational exploitation of water. The mining of nut groundwater must be governed by law.
The following areas prohibit the creation of additional light groundwater wells:
(i) Restricted buildings such as cities, slum-dwellers;
(ii) The State's major infrastructure and the area of safety in water works;
(iii) Other areas that may result in the collation of groundwater aquifers or groundwater contamination.
Article 29, in violation of this approach, provides that one of the following cases is converted by a time limit for the administrative authority for water-savings, to conduct in non-commercial activities and to a fine of up to 1,000 dollars for business activities;
(i) Water units refuse to implement water indicators;
(ii) Water units, such as clean water (minal water) for major raw materials, which are below the prescribed standards or are directly released to the end water;
(iii) The use by water units of clear-cut phase-out of life-saving devices or the lack of updating within the specified time frame;
(iv) The cost-saving water facilities for construction projects are unused;
(v) Water-water enterprises have damaged water for water facilities, equipment, equipment and equipment due to negligence, negligence.
Article 31, in violation of article 28, paragraph 2 (a), provides for the new opening of a sufficient groundwater well, to be responsibly corrected by the water-saving administrative authorities and a fine of up to $100,000.
Article 31 provides administrative disposal by the administrative authorities, the water-saving management body and the relevant functional departments and their staff to perform negligence, abuse of authority, provocative fraud, by their offices, superior authorities or the administrative inspectorate; constitutes a crime and is criminally criminalized by law.
Article 32 of this approach is implemented effective 1 October 2006.