How Xinjiang poverty-stricken desert villages get clean drinking water

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How Xinjiang poverty-stricken desert villages get clean drinking water​

For more than six decades 71-year-old Nasier Maitiniyazi had to carry buckets of water from a river to his home in the Uchkebron Village in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The water was dirty and difficult to transport. Then, in 2018, the Ministry of Water Resources made ensuring safe drinking water for the poor as its top priority. An experienced team was dispatched to the village by the Xinjiang Water Resources Department and after a long search they found a fresh spring in the valley eight kilometers away that now provides potable water to Maitiniyazi and other villagers.

 

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The 'Xinjiang Three Gorges Dam': Altash Water Conservancy Project

The Altash Water Conservancy Project stands on the border between Kashgar and Kizilsu Kirghiz. It was started in 2011 with the aim of solving the basin's extreme seasonal flooding. The project costs nearly 11 billion yuan in total and is sometimes called the "Xinjiang Three Gorges Dam." In May 2020, the main part of the dam was finished, at a height of 164.8 meters. The project will be able to store 2.25 billion cubic meters of water when fully completed. It's expected to control flooding, relieve spring droughts and power the south of Xinjiang.

 

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新疆将彻底解决贫困人口饮水安全问题
从世界第二大流动沙漠塔克拉玛干沙漠深处的“旧”达里雅布依村，搬迁到“新”达里雅布依村后，村民艾则孜·阿布都拉每天做饭时，拧开富民安居房里的水龙头，汩汩清水流出，“这水真甜，这水真干净……”
目前，新疆还有1.53万贫困人口存在饮水安全问题，主要集中在喀什地区伽师县。2019年6月，总投资近17.5亿元、覆盖逾47万人的伽师县城乡饮水安全工程开工。该工程已于今年3月全面复工，吹响了新疆全面解决贫困人口饮水问题的“冲锋号”。

　　记者从新疆扶贫开发办公室获悉，目前，伽师县城乡饮水安全工程主体已完工，正在进行试通水，5月底将全面通水运行。届时，将彻底解决伽师县城乡的饮水安全问题。至此，新疆贫困人口的饮水安全问题将得到全部解决。(完)

Xinjiang will 100% completely solve safe drinking water issue by the end of this month, now Xinjiang still has the last remaining 15000 people who live in the heart of the world second biggest desert Taklamakan desert not having access to clean, safe drinking water.

The govenment invested 1.75 billion Yuan (250$ million) last year to build water transport facilities to bring water to the heart of the desert so everyone here can have safe drinking water, the project was stalled early this year due to the coronavirus and restarted this March, the whole project will be finished and put into operation at the end of this month, by then every single person in Xinjiang can access to safe clean drinking water, another milestone for poverty alleviation will be crossed and safe drinking water issue will be solved once and for all, and become a thing of the past for Xinjiang .

 

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1.75 billion Yuan (250$ million) just for 15000 peole living in the middle of nowhere? Maybe only China would do this seemingly extremely dumb investment which guarantees no returns.

The quality of the water is being closely monitored
于田县农村饮用水水质检测中心工作人员米日古丽·亚森在检验水厂送来的水样。