Water Authority of Shenzhen Municipality expressed on Apr. 10, that Shenzhen will complete in 2023 community’s high-quality drinking water supply project, community’s water distribution system renovation project and community’s secondary water-supply facilities improvement and renovation project. 

By 2025, the running water in the whole city can be drunk directly. 

During recent years, Shenzhen gathers water-supply market resources, learns from related advanced management experiences, accelerates to build new waterworks and to enlarge, improve, renovate existing ones. The city attaches great importance to solving the “last-one-kilometer” problem faced by its water supply. Through the measures as strengthening the market supervision, and improving the city’s water supply standard, Shenzhen keeps the comprehensive qualification rate of its running water at the level of over 99.9% for certain consecutive years.  

For water distribution systems:

Since 2013, Shenzhen has put forward two high-quality drinking water supply projects. The related project funds are undertaken by Shenzhen related municipal authority and the district’s involved authority by half to half. The expenditures on water meters and valves are undertaken by the water-supply enterprises. The project involves renewing community’s shared water meters and users’ independent water meters, and renovating the city’s municipal pipelines and user’s water distribution systems. As the renovation is completed, water-supply enterprises are responsible for the maintenance and management, and read the water meter individually for each household. Until now, the old water distribution systems have been renovated completely across Shenzhen. 

For water supply facilities:

At the end of 2018, Shenzhen started its secondary water supply facility improvement and renovation project, with the fund undertaken by the related municipal authority and the district’s involved authority by half to half. The project involves improving and renovating water pump rooms, water pools (tanks), water pumps and monitoring equipment in the 2,900 communities across Shenzhen. Now, the renovation has been completed over all districts in Shenzhen. After the renovation, water supply enterprises shall be responsible for maintaining and managing the communities’ water supply facilities. And, there will be effective improvement on the water quality and water pressure, further perfecting the city’s water supply service.