Ningbo passed re-examination for a national water saving city
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- Category: Governmental News
- Published: Monday, 04 June 2012 10:09
According to the supervision center of Ningbo Municipal Bureau of City Management, recently the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Construction announced that 19 cities entitled national water saving cities have passed the re-examination for 2011 and Ningbo is one of the cities.
In March 2007, Ningbo was honored as a national water saving city. Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Ningbo Municipal Government have attached great importance to water saving. It constantly improves the work mechanism and has set up special departments in charge of the work of water saving in the city. The coordinated work of various departments leads to a good environment for the work of water saving in the city.
Meanwhile, the city attached great importance to the formulation of regulations and rules. In 2010 the city released "Rules on Urban Water Supply and Water Saving of Ningbo", standardizing and institutionalizing the work of water saving.
At present Ningbo has 55 enterprises (units) entitled model enterprises (units) of water saving and 93 communities (living quarters) entitled model communities (living quarters) of water saving.
On the annual "World Water Day", "World Environment Day" and "National Urban Water Saving Week", Ningbo organizes activities to popularize water saving about the public. By the various publicity activities, the city successfully popularizes the significance of water saving in the economic and social life and creates a good atmosphere for water saving in the whole of the society.
