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Mayor Replies to Students Report

Updated: 05 07 , 2013 19:41
Feng Hao and Guan Jiahui, two students from Yan'an Middle School in Shanghai, are overwhelmed with excitement recently--a report they handed over to the municipal government on water environment and pollution control along Huangpu River is responded with a letter from Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng.
Han gratified the students and their teachers for their effort in the water environment investigation, saying their report is well done.
One of the suggestions raised in the report--to build up a geographical information system (GIS) along Huangpu River, is accepted by the Shanghai Environment Protection Bureau. The system will apply modern info-tech in the water environment inspection. Concrete works on the system is underway.
The report was first initiated by a sharp contrast views between in the limpid water in the headstream of Huangpu River, and its heavy polluted mainstream running through the city, Feng Hao said.
"We saw picturesque scenery in Longwang Mountain (the headstream of the Huangpu River, on the boundaries on Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces)," said Feng. "We couldn't keep wondering, how, and where, does such limpid water got so heavily polluted."
The question led to a three-year investigation along the Huangpu River, from its headwaters in Longwang Mountain in Anji County to the water area near Songpu Bridge in Songjiang District in city's southwest.
Starting from 2001, members of the school environment science group took samples on 15 spots along the river, and did quantitative analysis according to eight indices.
They concluded, according to their investigations, that the main pollution source of the river is the Xitiao Brook in Zhejiang Province, the boundary of Shanghai and Jiangsu Provinces, and Shanghai's outskirt.
The report calls to establish inter-provincial organ in the pollution control of Huangpu River, which plans the water environment protection into a whole plan, instead of the current situation that each province merely take care of the area in its region.
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