Importance and vulnerability of lakes and reservoirs supporting drinking water in China.

ABSTRACT: Drinking water is closely related to human health, disease and mortality, and contaminated drinking water causes 485,000 deaths from diarrhea each year worldwide. China has been facing increasingly severe water scarcity due to both water shortages and poor water quality. Ensuring safe and clean drinking water is a great challenge and top priority, especially for China with 1.4 billion people. In China, more than 4000 centralized drinking water sources including rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and groundwater have been established to serve urban residents. However, there is little knowledge on the percentage, serving population and water quality of three centralized drinking water source types. We collected nationwide centralized drinking water sources data and serving population data coverin

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11197511 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature