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Beijing Water Conservation Measures

Original Language Title: 北京市节约用水办法

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Water-saving options in Beijing City

(Conference of 1 July 2012)

Contents

Chapter I General

Chapter II Water management

Chapter III Safeguards

Chapter IV Oversight inspection

Chapter V Legal responsibility

Annex VI

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 People's Republic of China Water Act and the approach to the implementation of the Water Law of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.

Article 2

Article 3. This city adheres to a water-use approach that is adapted to the economic and social development situation and the water resources delivery capacity, implements the overall water use and water efficiency controls and adopts measures such as legislation, administration, economic, engineering, science and technology to promote water savings.

Regional development planning, new cities and the development of regional planning, and the development of major construction projects should be demonstrated by water resources.

Article IV. Governments at all levels should incorporate water-saving efforts into national economic and social development plans; promote new water-efficient technologies, new processes, new equipment, nurturing and developing water-saving industries; and organize water-saving campaigns to increase water-saving awareness throughout society.

Units and individuals have the obligation to save water.

Article 5 is responsible for the integrated management of water-saving management across the city by the Government's Water Administration (hereinafter referred to as urban water management) and for the development, production of water-saving policies, planning, standards and monitoring, organizational implementation and guidance on water-based social construction.

The water-saving management body designated by the territorial Government of the District, the People's Government of the District and the Government of the Territory without Water Administration (hereinafter referred to as zones, subsoil management) is responsible for the management of water conservation in the current administrative area, in accordance with the established authority.

In accordance with their respective responsibilities, the relevant sectors of the urban and district governments are responsible for the work related to the savings of water in the current administration.

Article 6 communes, the people of the town and the street offices should be able to work on water savings within the Territory, organize water conservation, education and promote water-based town and water-based community-building; identify violations of this approach, should be stopped and reported to the relevant sectors.

The Villagers' Committee, the Residential Commission, assisted the communes, the people of town and the street offices in water-saving-related work; found that violations of this approach should be discouraged and reported to the relevant sectors.

Article 7 provides incentives for units and individuals that have made a prominent contribution in the management of water and water savings. Specific approaches are developed by municipal water management with the relevant sectors.

Article 8.

Chapter II Water management

Article 9. The urban water management should be in the same sector, in accordance with the principle of growth in new water availability, growth in environmental water control, industrial growth in new water use, new water use in agriculture, and demand for regional functionality orientation and industrial sustainable development, and scientific resource allocation, on a case-by-step basis, of the overall water use indicators; and no further increases in the region or industry's water use indicators.

The urban water management should prepare a market-wide water resource-saving planning and, after consulting the relevant sector, the implementation of the post-commercial government approval. Regions, zonal water management should be based on water-saving planning across the city, the production of water-saving planning in the current administrative region, and the implementation of the post-partisan government approval after consulting the relevant sector.

Urban and district, district water management should develop and organize implementation plans based on water-saving planning.

Water-saving planning and planning should be in line with the requirements for overall water control in the city.

Article 10 The urban development reform sector should prepare and publish, in accordance with the state of water resources, a directory and a directory of investment projects in the city's industry, agriculture, services and services.

The city has established a strong high-cost water project and unit-focused monitoring mechanism to strengthen water control management; strictly restricts the development of high-energy projects such as water-dependent production enterprises, man-made skils, high-release yards, high-size-fed yards. There are already high-energy projects that do not add water indicators.

The approach referred to high-camped sites, which refer to ablution outside ablution sites published by the municipal business authorities.

The municipal water management will conduct regular water efficiency assessments with the relevant sectors and make the results available to society.

Article 11 The level of water use in the industry was published by the Government of the city.

The sectors concerned should be developed with regard to the development of industrial water quotas, and should consider the delivery of water resources, water supply capacity and economic and social development in the city.

Article 12. Water management should meet the relevant water units by the end of March of each year, in accordance with the annual water use plan, the level of water use in the relevant industry and the living requirements of water units, the water use indicators approved for the water sector.

New water units or water units need to adapt water indicators and should be used by the water management to apply for approved or adapted water indicators.

Engineering, greenification and sanitation require temporary water, etc.

The water supply units shall not be supplied to water units without access to water indicators.

Article 13 Water supply units shall enter into water supply contracts with water units to clarify the rights obligations of both parties, agree that water units are in breach of the regulations of the water regulations and that the water supply units shall cease the water supply unit after the notice of the water management, and that the costs incurred as a result of the pipeline that takes a stop to water supply measures are borne by the illegal water units.

Article 14. The relocation of water units within the city's administrative area shall apply for the reapproval of water indicators in the city or in the relevant areas, and in the district water management.

Article 15. Water should be measured, paid.

Water supply units and water users should install water measurement facilities and strengthen the inspection and daily maintenance of water measurement facilities to ensure accuracy. The water supply unit should conduct regular school tests for water measurement facilities and identify damage to water measurement facilities and be repaired or replaced in a timely manner.

The water unit does not have water measurement facilities and is installed by the Water Management Authority for the duration of the time limit and, from the date of access to water, the calculation of water consumption in line with the construction of water capacity or the full-time operation of water equipment for the full-time operation until the installation of water measurement facilities is installed.

Article 16 contains more than two types of water properties requiring implementation of different water prices, and water measurement facilities should be installed in accordance with the different types of water use.

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

Article 17 Water management should strengthen the identification of water-metering facilities directly from rivers, lakes or underground water resources and collect water resources on time. The water supply unit should improve the water measurement and identification system, accurately record water use and collect water costs on time.

Water units and individuals should cooperate with the identification schedules and fees of the staff of the water management and water supply units.

Article 18 Water units shall be used in accordance with water indicators issued by section water management, and water management conducts a study of water units every two months.

In addition to the actual payment of water costs, the water supply unit of the Public Management Network receives incremental costs according to the following multipliers: In addition to the provision of 20 per cent (concluding the figure), the amount of the price is charged in accordance with the double standard of the water price, which exceeds the amount of 20 to 40 per cent (concluded in the present figure) and is charged in accordance with the two-fold criteria for the water price, in addition to the amount of more than 40 per cent.

In addition to the real payment of water resources, the Water Management Service receives the incremental cost of water resources in accordance with the standard of water resources actually carried out by the unit, in accordance with the following multipliers: In addition to the provision of 20 per cent (concluding the figure), the five-fold criteria for water resources are charged in accordance with the five-fold criteria for the amount of 20 to 40 per cent (concluding this figure), which exceeds 50 per cent of the required amount, and the 15-fold standard of water resources.

Article 19 Water supply units, regenerational production enterprises and other units that directly draw water resources from rivers, lakes or land should, at the request of the water management, promptly, accurately send water or actual water.

Article 20 should establish a water information system for urban and district and district water management, make regular publication of regional and industrial water use, guide the industry's reasonable downturns and direct the entrepreneurship units and the social savings of water.

Chapter III Safeguards

Article 21, new construction, alteration, expansion projects directly capture water from rivers, lakes or land, should be conducted in accordance with the law; construction projects for access to public water or refuelling water; and water management build a water resource assessment system.

The construction, alteration and expansion of construction projects in article 2 should be accompanied by the design, parallel construction and parallel inputs. Planning design units should be designed in accordance with national and current market water standards and norms, as well as in separate fascicles; construction map review units should strictly review water-related aspects. The water facility design programme should be submitted for review by the Water Management Service without the clearance or clearance of the water management, 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 reported to the water management. Unless experienced receipts or receipts are not qualified, construction projects cannot be used, and water management does not have approved water indicators and water supply units are not supplied.

Water facilities include water-saving devices, processes, equipment, measurement facilities, re-entry systems and rainwater harvesting systems.

Article 23, when house demolitions should be removed, the water supply agreement with the water supply units should be concluded on the basis of progress in the construction of demolitions, to clarify the responsibility for water management in the construction site.

The water supply unit should work in conjunction with the progress of dismantling the construction and take measures to close the water supply line of the relocation sites in a timely manner.

Article 24 provides that industrial water units should use advanced technologies, processes and equipment, increase the number of recycling of water and increase water use rates. The repeated use rate of water should meet the standards set by the State and the city. Without meeting the criteria, water management is responsible for the technical adaptation of its deadlines. There is still no standard of rehabilitation, which is subject to a nuclear reduction of water indicators by water management.

Industrial water in the area covered by renewable water lines should be used.

Indirect refrigeration should be recycled and the rate of recycling is not less than 98 per cent.

Article 25 Production enterprises with water for raw materials should use water-efficient production processes and technologies to reduce water consumption. A net water production enterprise shall not be less than 70 per cent of the raw materials.

The end water after the production of a water-for-producted enterprise should be recovered without direct emissions.

Article 26 is on-site, sold potable water units or individuals should install end-water recovery facilities, take advantage of the water at the end and shall not be directly discharged, and provide the health administrative authorities in the facility in accordance with the relevant provisions of this city. No units and individuals shall be provided with water resources without the installation of an end-of-water recovery facility; the provision of water is contrary to the provision of the provision of water, which is being converted by the charging of water management.

On-site systems that have been installed prior to the implementation of this approach, the resale of drinking water equipment, the relevant units or individuals should install the end water recovery facility within six months from the date of implementation of the scheme.

Article 27 of the Municipal Agricultural, Plant Greening Administration should adjust agricultural production to the relevant sectors and forest, pastoral, fisheries water structures.

Regions, zonal governments should guide agricultural production operators and individuals to rationalize crop cultivation structures in accordance with the water resources situation in the current administration area, develop high-efficiency-efficient agriculture, limit and reduce the size of water-efficient crop cultivation.

Article 28 provides that agricultural production exceeds the use of groundwater and shall pay water resources; rural water is not subject to a subsidy system. No measurement facilities have been installed, which is installed by the communes and the Government of the town.

The cultivation industry should adopt advanced irrigation methods such as pipeline water, trajectory, microbillage, dripping, to increase water efficiency; encourage non-food production of refuelling water; and nutrients should be used.

Article 29 redirects agricultural wells to non-agricultural uses, and water units should reapprove water indicators and meet the new water-specific cost.

Article 33 encourages green use of rainwater and refuelling water and the gradual reduction of the use of subsistence water.

Greenfields, trees, flowers should use irrigated water, such as spraying, microclination, dripping, and strictly implement the green irrigation system for parking forests and increase the efficiency of green water use.

The water use and other urban trajectives within the home area, which should be used for rainwater or refuelling, shall not be used for water.

A new construction, alteration and expansion project should be accompanied by the construction of rainwater harvesting facilities in accordance with the relevant provisions of this city, and construction units may apply for relief of flood charges in accordance with the relevant provisions.

The construction of rainwater harvesting facilities was encouraged by the construction of completed construction projects, and rural units and individuals were encouraged to build rainwater harvesting facilities on the ground.

The construction units for new, alteration and expansion projects should take measures to limit the rainfall; the need for construction to be carried out should be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of this city and in accordance with the standard payment for groundwater resources.

Article 33 Water units providing washing services should build recycling water facilities; refuels should be used in the area covered by renewable water pipelines.

Water units that provide washing services should be sent to the Water Management Service for the registration form of a cyclical water facility, which is developed by the urban water management; and in the area covered by the refuelling water line should be sent to the Waterwater supply contract as required.

Article 34 Water supply units or water management should be progressively used for the production of water-dependent materials, for example, water-efficient units, such as water-efficient sites, high-camps, and for more than 50,000 water users for the year.

In accordance with the above-mentioned provisions, high-cost water units and water users of water-borne equipment should ensure that equipment is used properly and that the use of water data is not stopped or removed.

Article XV prohibits the production, sale or use of high-cost equipment, products and water equipment that are not in compliance with the water standards in this city.

The municipal water management should recognize the directory of the “Waters” and “Chiefs for the phase-out of water” with the municipal quality technical supervision sector, in accordance with the standards of the local hydro machinery, and make public the society.

Article 36 Water supply units should strengthen the upgrading and day-to-day inspection, maintenance and management of the water supply network, such as record-keeping and maintenance management, improve the monitoring and maintenance of the water network and reduce the rate of failure of the water supply network.

Public water supply units should be made available to society for the purchase of telephones, and failures should be made in a timely manner.

The water supply units should report to the urban water management on water units and changes in water.

Article 337 Water management and related units should establish a water resource-torage monitoring, resource optimization and water information management system to improve water information statistics, reporting systems.

When water use in water units may exceed water indicators, water management should give early warning signals.

Article 338 of the three archaeological periods of the water unit beyond the provision of 50 per cent of the water-use indicators, which is being corrected by the municipal water management responsibilities, are over-removable, and the municipal water management has tasked the water supply units to take measures to meet approved water indicators.

Article 39 allows for the cessation of the production of water supplies for high-cost water units listed in Article 34 of this approach, with the approval of the Government of the communes, in the event of a particularly significant incident in water supply in major cities or 90 per cent of the water supply capacity.

Article 40. Water units should take measures to enhance water efficiency management so that:

(i) The establishment of a sound water-saving responsibilities and the construction of water-based units;

(ii) The establishment of a specialized water agency or the designation of a specific person responsible for water-saving;

(iii) The establishment of water desks, the conduct of water statistics analyses, the explicit water use plans, water conservation targets, water-saving measures, and the regular conduct of sound water analysis or water-balance testing;

(iv) Strengthening the day-to-day management of water facilities;

(v) Saving water awareness.

Public institutions should scale up and strengthen the internal management of water-saving, put an end to waste, lead in the use of water-saving products, equipment, processes, and increase water efficiency.

Article 40

Article 42 governs the management of public water facilities, firefighting facilities should enhance the day-to-day maintenance of water supply facilities and fire-fighting facilities and take effective measures to prevent the waste of water by units and individuals or the unauthorized access to water.

Article 43 should strengthen water-saving advocacy and disseminate water-saving public advertisements.

The education administration should include water-saving knowledge in school education.

When travelling agencies receive tourists, water-saving campaigns should be carried out to raise awareness of water for tourists.

Public places such as restaurants, theatres, sports houses, hospitals, schools, exhibitions, museums, libraries, waiting rooms, waiting rooms and waiting rooms should be created to promote water-saving knowledge.

Article 44

Governments should organize water science and technology studies to integrate water and technology resources.

Units and individuals are encouraged to develop water-efficient devices and water technology, processes, equipment and products.

Chapter IV Oversight inspection

Article 42 Water management and other relevant departments should perform their duties in accordance with the law and effectively strengthen monitoring of water supply units, water units and water-saving water use.

Article 46 gives 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 47 water management should strengthen the day-to-day monitoring of water use in larger units, increase the frequency of inspections of high-energy units, deal with the identified waste of water in a timely manner, and require joint inspection in collaboration with the relevant sectors.

Article 48 encourages units and individuals to report waste of water to the water management or to the water law enforcement sector, which should be dealt with in a timely manner after reporting.

The relevant sectors that have been reported should be confidential and rewarded by the reportingers for reporting of actual and critical waste of water. Specific incentives are developed by municipal water management with relevant sectors such as urban development reform and finance.

Water management should publish the reporting of telephones, boxes or e-mail addresses and receive reports.

Chapter V Legal responsibility

Article 49, in violation of Article 12, paragraphs 1, 2 and 2, of this approach, provides that water units do not have access to water-use indicators for unauthorized water use and are subject to a fine of up to 100,000 yen by the Water Management Service for the period of time and the payment of water.

In violation of article 12, paragraph 3, of the present approach, water units do not have access to temporary water indicators or exceed the authorized period of time, and are subject to a fine of up to 50,000 dollars.

In violation of article 12, paragraph 4, of the present approach, water supply units have unauthorized access to water supply for water units that do not have access to water indicators, which are being converted by the charging of water management orders and are fined by more than 100,000 dollars at the expense of the relevant authorities and other direct responsibilities.

In violation of article 16, paragraph 2, of this approach, the water unit has been able to change the water pipeline and to avoid the classification of measurements, which is being converted by the time limit for the issuance of the water management order, with a fine of over 50,000 dollars.

Article 50, paragraph 2, and paragraph 3, of this approach stipulates that the water unit is not paying the incremental costs on time and is converted by the time limit for the issuance of the Water Management Order to cover the lag of thousands of lags per day.

Article 52, in violation of article 19 of this approach, provides that water units, refuelling and other units directly from rivers, lakes or underground water resources are not reported to water management in a timely manner, actual water use or the provision of false information, which is being converted by water management orders, with a fine of over 1,000 dollars.

Article 53, paragraph 1, of this approach stipulates that the removal of the owner has not entered into a water supply agreement with the water supply unit or has not caused severe waste of water resources in accordance with the agreement's request for self-engineering, with the exception of the payment of the corresponding costs, is subject to a fine of up to 15 times the payment of water costs.

In violation of article 23, paragraph 2, of this approach, the water supply unit does not justify the deliberate delay, the conclusion of a water supply agreement or the failure to take timely measures to stop the waste of water resources, which is converted by an order of responsibility by the water management, with a fine of over 500,000 dollars.

Article 54, in violation of article 24, paragraph 2, of this approach, stipulates that industrial water units in the area covered by the resupply water pipeline are not used for refuelling and are converted by the Water Management Authority for a period of up to 50,000 yen.

In violation of article 24, paragraph 3, of this approach, indirect refrigeration of direct emissions or recycling rates of less than 98 per cent, is converted by a charging period for water management, with a fine of over 50,000 dollars.

Article 55, in violation of article 25, paragraph 1, of this approach, provides that a net water production enterprise is less than 70 per cent and is converted by a time limit of responsibility by the water management; it is still not possible to meet the mark and that a nuclear water reduction indicator may be fined by more than 10,000 dollars.

In violation of article 25, paragraph 2, of the present approach, the production of water for raw materials is directly released at the end of water, with the time limit being converted by the Water Management Authority, with a fine of more than 10,000 dollars.

Article 56, in violation of article 26 of this approach, stipulates that on-site, sold drinking water units or individuals have not been filed, is subject to a fine of up to 5,000 dollars by the sanitary administrative authorities, which is punishable by the deadline of up to 1000 dollars, and that no construction of an end-of-water recycling facility has been carried out, the time limit for the maintenance of water management orders has not been changed, the removal of orders and the removal of fines of over 20,000 dollars.

Article 57, in violation of article 28, paragraph 1, of this approach, provides that rural water is provided with a fiduciary system, which is converted by the Water Management Authority and fined in accordance with the criteria of €200 million per household.

In violation of article 28, paragraph 2, of this approach, the construction of water intrusive or large-scale water inclination has resulted in waste of water, which is converted by the charging of water management orders, with a fine of 5,000 dollars.

Article 58, in violation of article 29 of this approach, provides for an unauthorized change in the use of agricultural wells, which is being converted by the charging of water management, with a fine of more than 10,000 dollars.

Article 59, in violation of article 33, paragraph 3, of this approach, stipulates that the use of water from the landscape environment within the home area and units shall be modified by the time limit of the issuance of orders by the water management, with a fine of over 3,000 dollars.

In violation of article 33, paragraph 1, of this approach, water units providing washing car services are not constructed, used to use cyclical water facilities or have not been used for refuelling water as prescribed by the Water Management Authority for a period of up to 1 million fines.

In violation of article 33, paragraph 2, of this approach, water units providing laundry services are not reported to the water management to have completed the registration form of the cycled water facility or to the refuelling water supply contract, which is converted by the hydro management time limit to a fine of 1000.

Article 60, in violation of article 34 of this approach, provides that high-energy units and water users do not guarantee the proper use of the equipment or do not stop the use or removal of the equipment, are converted by the water management order deadline of up to 10,000 dollars.

Article 62, paragraph 1, of the present approach provides that the production or sale of water items that are not in accordance with the water standard in this city shall be subject to the responsibility of the quality technical supervision department or the business administration to cease production, sale and fines, in accordance with the criteria set out in Article 35, paragraph 1, of the scheme.

In violation of article 36, paragraph 3, of this approach, the water supply units are not reported to the urban water management for water units and changes in water use, as provided for in Article 63, paragraph 3, and are subject to administrative disposal by the appropriate sector.

Article 64, paragraph 1, of this approach stipulates that the water unit does not carry out the responsibility to save water management, which is modified by a time limit for the management of water and is delayed or causing adverse consequences such as waste of water, with a fine of more than 5,000 dollars.

Article 65 of the present approach provides for the unauthorized removal of water from public water facilities, fire-fighting facilities, which is converted by the charging of water management orders, fines of more than 100,000 units, and fines of more than 100 million dollars for individuals; damage to facilities resulting from the repair or compensation.

Article 66 of the water unit violates the provisions of this approach for waste of water, and water management should reduce the next year's water use target, in accordance with the requirements for overall water control.

Article 67 Water management should establish an information record of violations committed by water units, such as a record of the violation of water use by water units; the water unit is an enterprise and its information on violations of water should be incorporated into the city's corporate credit information system in accordance with the relevant provisions of this city, and the enterprises that severely waste water use can be published through the media.

Article 68 Water management or other relevant departments and their staff members violate the provisions of this approach by providing administrative treatment under the law to the competent and other persons directly responsible:

(i) The preparation or implementation of water-saving planning, plans in accordance with the relevant provisions;

(ii) Non-compliance with the responsibility for the management of water conservation by law;

(iii) No water-use indicators are approved or adjusted by law;

(iv) No charge of incremental costs by law;

(v) Other non-compliance or non-compliance with the law.

Annex VI

Article 69