Beijing to legislate heavy fines act endangering rivers and lakes

fish covered with flies, June 18, 2011, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (Tongzhou section) water pollution on the water and the shore, many dead fish floating. Profile picture Zhou Gangfeng newspaper photo

(Reporter Yang Huayun) yesterday, the city of Beijing for the first river and lake protection legislation within the scope of the draft to the municipal Standing Committee, Municipal Water Cheng Jing draft instructions for the Secretary said, the face of the grim situation of water resources in Beijing covering the whole territory of a much-needed legislation.

legislation to protect rivers and lakes to break the urban-rural dual system

Cheng Jing said, breaking the rivers and lakes to protect the urban-rural dual system is one of the key legislation. He said most of the urban rivers and lakes connected urban and rural water systems, across multiple administrative regions, urban-rural split two yuan because of the management system design issues, so that the same river upstream and downstream along the rivers, tributaries of the protection and management of non-uniform system affecting the whole river and lake water governance and management effectiveness.

this, Bill established the conservation and management of river and lake basin management and regional management with the management system, and given the administrative department of the Beijing water protection and management of rivers and lakes of the city’s unified regulatory powers.

draft allows municipal water administrative departments in the Yongding River, North Canal, Chaobai and other cross-county major river basin management institutions set up, in the exercise of jurisdiction under the regulatory responsibility to protect rivers and lakes.

National People’s Congress proposed to increase refining regulatory responsibilities

draft 11 is the legal responsibility of the penalty provisions, which is the other 10 penalty units or individuals, such as water source swim a maximum fine of two million. However, the administrative organs and public officials involved in illegal punishment is only one, “the water administrative departments and other relevant non-compliance with management responsibilities to protect rivers and lakes, causing serious consequences, from the same level of government to pursue the administrative department responsible for the administrative responsibility and so on. “

this, the Municipal People’s Congress chairman Reid Rural Affairs Committee for consideration of the report was that the more general provisions, and suggested refinement, all levels of government and relevant departments, the watershed management agencies and their staff need to set the legal liability of seven cases.

The seven cases, the non-compliance with management objectives to protect rivers and lakes assessment duties; river and lake protection and management of non-performance of duties or does not perform Planning river and lake protection and management plan; not prosecute the scope of management and protection of rivers and lakes within the scope of prohibited sexual behavior, not according to order to stop illegal, forced removal, forced removal, seizure, detention, fines and other measures; does not carry the approval Lake River conservation and management responsibilities; or failure to perform monitoring functions to monitor false information ; functional areas do not limit the implementation of water pollutant systems; non-compliance with regulations of other duties.

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Municipal People’s Congress proposed water supply and ecological compensation

river basin management should be established across the co-ordination mechanism

WASHINGTON (Reporter Yang Huayun) upstream to protect the ecological and economic impact of the development of downstream ecological compensation should be given upstream. Rural Affairs Committee of Beijing Municipal People’s Congress proposed the establishment of this mechanism.

water source protection areas have made great contributions

Municipal People’s Congress chairman Reid Rural Affairs Committee to the Standing Committee meeting was to consider the draft comments for the report said, water source protection areas to protect water sources, improve made a great contribution to the environment, regional economic development has been limited, and because of serious over-exploitation of underground water, bring to the local water table becoming less and less, part of the waste water facilities, agriculture, rising costs and potential risks of geological disasters.

Bill Committee suggested an increase in rural states that “the city and district, county government should be based on water supply and river and lake ecosystem service value, and gradually establish the city’s drinking water source protection areas and ecological protection in mining areas compensation mechanism.

Municipal People’s Congress Xu, deputy director of the Office of another rural town that ecological compensation does not institutionalized the way, despite the fact that in the event of some compensation, such as Beijing in Hebei, water diversion project ecological compensation, but is often done through the form of negotiations.

Chaobai governance affect the sub-management

protection of rivers and lakes is another problem related to inter-provincial committee has also proposed legislation to regulate rural areas. Reid was said that in addition to the city within five major river systems originate in Beijing, North Canal, the Jiyun, Chaobai, Daqing have originated in Hebei, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia, originated in the Yongding River, and Beijing’s major river systems upstream and downstream along the rivers connected with a number of provinces, on the protection and management are inseparable.

particular, he mentioned, Chaobai river basin management process such as Beijing and Hebei Province, the area in river and lake protection and management policies and governance the intensity of the inconsistency, affecting the overall effect of watershed management.

this regard, the Commission draft proposal to increase the rural states that “in the Haihe River Water Resources Commission, under the unified guidance of the municipal government, municipal water administrative department shall, with Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and other places and the water conservancy administrative departments of the government to establish communication and cooperation mechanism to strengthen integrated and coordinated protection and management of rivers and lakes. “

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” rivers, lakes, this should not be sub-management “

(Reporter Kim Yu) Yesterday, the environmental organization” Green Home “founder, Wang Yongchen water environment environmentalists said that Beijing has five major river systems, are consistent and clear of. rivers, lakes should never have been divided into a section of land management, water is the whole, the whole basin, the river is characterized by flow injection There are a lot of river water, river, lake, water is flowing into the many rivers and lakes, so you can not control when the control period, that period of his possession, if the government can stand on the perspective of the whole river area is the best treatment , but not just by government water control management, information is public, the public can participate, for the community are vital.

current urban water is a big problem in the city self-generated pollution Beijing is now a lot of communities do not have sewage treatment plants, such as Tiantongyuan not such a big area of ??sewage treatment plants, give the entire basin Chaobai brought pollution, this is very common, city managers should pay attention to .

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legislation intended to ban the 15 behaviors (excerpt)

construction has nothing to do with the river and lake protection and management of buildings, will be per square meter construction area of ??300 yuan to 3,000 yuan standards impose a fine, or at the total cost of the construction project more than five percent below 10 percent of the fine.

without filling the lake, filling the river made, the Ming- change the river and other engineering buildings and structures; damage to flood control and other ancillary equipment and facilities; embankment or construction of water-blocking channels, water blocking the road; During the flood control and emergency rescue, emergency vehicles in non-flood dams, dikes, Gate Bridge, closure Taiwan, rivers and lakes specific road traffic management of the four prohibited acts is punishable by 1 million to 5 million fine.

tall crops planted in the river, trees, damaged berm revetment trees, landscape sketches, etc., in the drinking water source areas or other key water swimming, washing vehicles, provide a variety of commodity trading markets, business stalls and fair trade activities carried out in five different acts are prohibited within the scope, at 200 yuan a fine of 2,000 yuan; the circumstances are serious, 2,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan shall be imposed.

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