| 據中國青年報，11月20日，水利部農村飲水安全中心主任李仰斌指出，我國仍有約2.7億農村人口的飲水安全問題需要解決。 |
In our country, access to safe drinking water for about 270 million people living in rural areas is a problem that still needs to be solved, said Li Yangbin, director general of the Center for Rural Drinking Water Safety, Ministry of Water Resources, according to a report by China Youth Daily on November 20. |
| 第四屆中國(國際)水務高峰論壇11月20日在京結束。李仰斌說，除污染以外，我國農村飲用水還有部分存在氟砷超標、鐵錳超標、苦咸等問題。 |
The fourth China International Water Business Summit concluded on November 20 in Beijing. Li said in addition to pollution, the drinking water in rural areas also contained high amounts of fluorine and arsenic, excessive amounts of iron and manganese, and brackish substances. |
| 水利工程中的污染問題也逐漸顯現。這幾年建設的大量的水利工程，在檢驗的時候都是合格，但是運行一段時間，水質就出問題了。 |
Problems related to polluted drinking water have gradually emerged. Many projects have been constructed in the past few years, passing standards for clean drinking water. However, after a period of time, the quality of the water at many project stations started to decline again. |
| “根據去年和今年衛生部的檢測，已建的工程里面水質達標的大概在48%左右，老百姓肉眼一看水很清，但是顯微鏡下的細菌超標。” |
"Tests performed by the Ministry of Health within the past 2 years have shown that about 48 percent of the constructed projects met water quality standards. The water looks clean to the naked eye, but the microscopic bacteria exceeded the limit." |
| 李仰斌稱，這些問題都要分期解決。目前的重點是加快農村飲水安全工程建設步伐，深化農村供水工程體制改革，強化水質檢測,社會服務和水源保護。特別是水質要引起重視。 |
Li said the problems needed to be solved in stages. Currently, the emphasis is to speed up the construction of water safety projects in rural areas and deepen the systematic reform of water supply engineering. Strengthening water quality tests, social services and conservation of water sources is also important. The quality of water especially needs to be emphasized. |
| “近5年來，我們已經解決了1.6億農村人口的飲水不安全問題。我們的目標是要到2015年解決納入總體規劃的3.2億農村人口的飲水安全問題，新增人口在摸底后統籌解決。水利部正在制定規劃。”李仰斌說。（中國青年報） |
"In the past five years, we have managed to solve the issue of unsafe drinking water for 160 million people living in rural areas. Our overall goal is to solve this problem for 320 million rural people by the year 2015. The increased population will be taken into consideration after assessing the situation. The Ministry of Water Resources is mapping out the plan," Li said. (China.org.cn translated by Zhou Jing) |
