Henan vows to clean up its water quality act

An official in charge of water resources in Central China's Henan province vowed on Tuesday to improve water quality in the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.

Wang Shushan, director of Henan's department of water resources, said that the project's 731-km trenches will be finished by the end of next year, and water from Henan is scheduled to reach Beijing and Tianjin in 2014, traveling a total distance of 1,423 km.

The water diversion project is designed to take water from China's longest river, the Yangtze, to feed northern China's drought-prone areas, including Beijing.