Yangtze drinking water violations vastly rectified

Most environmental violations uncovered by China's top environmental watchdog last year in bodies of water that supply drinking water and most discolored and foul-smelling water bodies it found in key cities have been addressed, the watchdog said.

Inspectors discovered 6,251 violations during two rounds of inspections involving 1,586 bodies of water in the 11 provinces and municipalities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt and many more around China in May and September.

Currently, 99.9 percent of the violations have been rectified, Li Ganjie, minister of ecology and environment, said in the annual conference of the ministry that concluded on Saturday.