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60 percent of the groundwater quality at monitoring stations nationwide was bad in 2013 and the quality level has been falling since 2011, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing Times reported on Wednesday. There are 4,778 monitoring stations in 203 prefecture-level administrative regions across the country. The water quality at 2,095 stations, or 43.9 percent of the total, was "poor", while the quality at another 750 stations was "extremely poor", accounting for 15.7 percent.