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For our NGO project, our group is focusing on informing people about the water pollution that is affecting China, not only environmentally, but harming the agriculture and society as well. Even though there has been lack of clean water pollution all over the world, for the past several years, pollution is getting worse and worse everyday in China. By informing people across the globe and mainly in China, the pollution level can decrease in the following years. Not only is our group going to focus on informing others, we’re going to make sure that three of the most water polluted cities in China, Tianjin, Chao lake [which is one of China’s largest freshwater lakes] and Xian are specifically informed.

There are actually some organizations that are working on improving the pollution in the three cities that we are going to talk about. For Tianjin, a wastewater Improvement Project has been co financed by the Tianjin Municipal Government and the World Bank. This plan is to focus on improving sewage collection and treatment as well as the institutional and pollution control. They are mainly taking action by optimizing water consumption and reducing pollution loads while emphasizing on the improvement of effluent discharge quality. As for Cao Lake, there is a solution to restore the lake’s water quality and improve it for health and economic concerns. The Asian Development Bank appointed the Camp Dresser & McKee to conduct a feasibility study and develop a possible project for the construction of municipal wastewater treatment facilities. Lastly, for Xian, there hasn’t really been a plan to lessen the amount of pollution but for now; they say that the government is coming up with an environmental friendly plan to treating sewage.

We are going to focus especially on these cities because, as a group we think that these are the ones that need the most help. We are going to start by informing the people about how much pollution there is in each city, how it is happening, and what we can do to prevent it. First, we are going to focus on Tianjin then move onto Cao Lake, and then lastly Xian.

Tianjin, which is the third largest industrial city in China, is filled with water pollution. In Tianjin, there has always been a shortage of water. Because of this, farmers use untreated wastewater for agricultural and drinking purposes. This is one of the worst social aspects there is because the untreated water is polluted with chemicals that can be toxic and cause waterborne disease which can affect humans with great impact. What is the source of this? Water pollution. Our main target to help the city of Tianjin is to start by informing the people, especially Tianjin residents, about what they are doing to pollute untreated water. Since there is naturally, shortage of water, Tianjin will have to use untreated water to grow crops and drink. To help this situation, humans need to stop polluting the limited amount of water there is. That is our main goal for the city of Tianjin. We will try to inform facts about pollution and decrease the amount of waterborne diseases that will affect humans by stopping water pollution.

We are going to work on Xian and Cao lake just like we worked on Tianjin. We are mainly going to work on as we said before, informing people about the damage water pollution is causing. However, we will also focus on working on a water filtering system that will clean the polluted water. Also, we can set up campaigns, and get the communities to be involved in cleaning up and looking after their city. We will also hope to test these waters over the years and see if the clarity of the water has improved with our efforts. As a group, we will get schools involved in volunteering and helping cleaning up these cities. Hopefully, in the next three years, these three polluted city will not make it in the top of the list for some of Shanghai’s most polluted water sources due to our efforts.

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