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²åͼ£ºWith a rapidly growing economy and burgeoning populations, the country's scarce water resources are seriously affected by pollution from the vast dis- charges of industrial and domestic wastewater, indiscriminate solid waste disposal, and runoff from an agricultural sector characterized by the excessive use of ferti-lizer and pesticides and by large-scale livestock breeding. Nowadays, most of thewater bodies in China are polluted, and some are heavily polluted. Surface andgroundwater pollution now represents a very large problem, both for publichealth and for the environment.The total wastewater discharges have steadily risen, being 53. 7 billion tons in2006, with COD discharges and NH3-N discharges amounting to 14.28 millionand 1.41 milliotl tons, respectively £¨MEP, 2007£©. It was not until 2007 that therising trend of water pollution discharges began to show signs of reversing, as thetotal 2007 COD discharges were reported to be 3.14% less than for 2006. In2003,38. 1% of China's river waters were considered to be polluted, up from 33%just one decade earlier. More than 75% of the water in the rivers flowing throughChina's urban areas is unsuitable for drinking or fishing. Only 6 of China's 27largest cities have a drinking water supply that meets the State standards. Manyurban river sections, and some large freshwater lakes, are so polluted that theycannot even be used for irrigation £¨Economy, 2004£©. According to The State Environmental Protection Administration's £¨SEPA£©annual report £¨EAI, 2003£©, over 70% of the water in five of the seven major riversystems, the Huai, Songhua, Hai, Yellow and Liao, was grade IV or worse, i. e., it could not meet any designated beneficial uses. For the Hai and Huai rivers, thisamount was 80. Even the majestic Yangtze river suffered a deep decline inwater quality, more than doubling the percentage of its water that was notsuitable for human contact to 48. 5 % in 2002 £¨Economy, 2004£©.Over the past decade, the rapid growth in populations and industrial activitieshas also been accompanied by a rapid rise in the level of pollution in China'swaterways. In terms of the source of water pollution, 50% of the water pollutionis caused by industrial and municipal wastewater discharges and by the leachingof solid waste; the remaining 50% is caused by non-point sources £¨in ruralareas£©, including nutrient runoff, pesticides, and emissions from intensive livestockproduction.