Nanfang Daily News (Reporter/ Zhang Zijun) On the 27th, the provincial rural domestic sewage treatment and toilet revolution, centralized water supply site will be held in Zengcheng, Guangzhou, the reporter learned from the meeting that at the end of this year, the province will complete 1,000 natural villages of domestic sewage treatment tasks, and 866 have been completed so far. At the same time, the three-year action task of improving rural toilets has been completed as required, and progress has been made in rural centralized water supply.
At present, Guangdong is making every effort to promote rural revitalization, and rural domestic sewage, toilet revolution, and centralized water supply are key tasks, of which rural domestic sewage treatment is one of the difficulties.
Recently, Guangdong issued the "Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Action of Rural Domestic Sewage Treatment in Our Province", which clarifies that by the end of 2021, 1,000 new natural villages will be added to complete the treatment of rural domestic sewage; by 2025, the Pearl River Delta region will basically complete the treatment of rural domestic sewage, and the rural domestic sewage treatment rate in the province will reach more than 60%.
According to the meeting, in 2020, the domestic sewage treatment rate in rural areas in Guangdong has increased from less than 20% in 2018 to more than 40%, and new facilities in the past two years account for nearly 70% of the facilities that have been built, which is more effective in alleviating the problem of rural water pollution.
In addition, as of the middle of October this year, the 866 natural villages included in the reserve pool for people's livelihood in the province have been completed, and the completion rate is 86.6% compared with the task target.
"In the future, we must not only increase our investment, but also use 'embroidery kung fu' to promote the work." The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment said that rural areas have the characteristics of dispersion and diversity, and need to be solved in the most appropriate technical way for specific rural situations. In the future, it will also cooperate with the relevant departments of the province to carry out supervision, research and evaluation of the actual handling of people's livelihood, and rely on the provincial technical team to carry out rural domestic sewage treatment training.
At the meeting, the progress of the toilet revolution in Guangdong was reported. By the end of September, there were more than 12.72 million sanitary household toilets in rural areas of the province, with a penetration rate of more than 95%, 71,023 standardized public toilets, etc., 7,479 newly rebuilt rural tourist toilets, 1,700 primary and secondary school toilets, and completed the three-year action task of rural toilet improvement as required. At the same time, it was proposed at the meeting that rural public toilets should be built according to needs, and villages with fewer outsiders and no guarantee of management and protection funds should not build new public toilets.
In terms of centralized water supply in rural areas in the province, since the implementation of the offensive action at the end of May, the province has started construction of 4266 water supply projects, with an operating rate of 80.6%, and the new population has been covered by 3.207 million people.