This National Groundwater Pollution Prevention and Control Plan (2011-2020) is a cross sectoral plan. Under the Plan, China will form a general understanding of the country's groundwater pollution situation and preliminarily bring the sources of groundwater pollution under control by 2015. Furthermore, the country aims to fully monitor the typical sources of groundwater pollution and to make the safety of essential underground drinking water sources well protected by 2020. Municipal sewage, household garbage, industrial wastes and seepages of fertilizers and pesticides have caused glaring pollution to groundwater in some parts of China, seriously affecting economic production and people's lives. As the country's first national plan on groundwater pollution prevention and control, this plan proposes to invest a total of 34.66 billion yuan in the prevention of groundwater pollution and to remedy environmental safety issues related to using groundwater as drinking water. The investment will go to six categories of projects, including survey, prevention, remediation of groundwater pollution, control of pollution in underground drinking water sources, agriculture-related groundwater pollution control, and underground water environment monitoring capacity building.
National Planning for Prevention and Control of Groundwater Pollution (2011-2020).