Danone project aims to improve water quality

A water conservation project in Xunwu county, Jiangxi province, is aiming to benefit more than 300,000 local residents and improve the quality of the drinking water of some 50 million people, along the massive Dongjiang River basin.

Xunwu county covers nearly 40 percent of the Dongjiang river source and is considered vital to the drinking water quality in the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong.

Announcing what is being called the Water Ecosystem Restoration Strategy, the company behind the Xunwu project, Danone Waters China, said it would involve a series of initiatives including forest protection on Yajibo mountain, restoration and sustainable use of wetlands in the Dongjiang river source, and education campaigns on environmental protection in rural Xunwu.