Guard against "high bath" water waste in urban water crisis deepened 2

March 2010, the famous private environmentalmany hotels have not been concurrently bath
organization "Friends of Nature" in its release "Chinesebusiness separate registration for various reasons, it
Environment and Development Report (2010),"is difficult to find accurate data. Data released in
expressed in the Beijing population to 1700 millionBeijing Jieshui Ban, also confirmed that Beijing is only
calculations, assuming that each person take a bathabout 3,000 existing bathing places, while in 1989 this
once a month to the bath, each times in 400 liters offigure was only 39.
water consumption, then the Beijing alone consumes    Bathing places the actual water consumption, it
annually to reach 81.6 million tons of water.is the topic of secrecy operators. Comment
    Subsequently, the overwhelming number ofreporters have contacted a number of bath industry
reports in the media, is to simplify the image into theoperators, but as long as the talk about water issues,
"Beijing annual bathing water industry consumes 41they remained silent. Pressed by reporters, there is
Kunming Lake."the operator told us to take some small bath to bath
    "I just used the frequently used inwater solution is recycled, reused after processing.
environmental education in the quantitativeHowever, in the relevant regulations explicitly require
formulation: If the person saves one meter, then thethat recycled water can not be used for the purpose
whole world how much you can save tons of rice."of human exposure.
Authors of the report, "Friends of Nature" member    One has ran bath industry to disclose to
survey Ping Hu, up to a year in his bath industryComment reporters, northeast of Beijing, near the
survey in Beijing to get the "bathing establishmentsThird Ring Road runs a medium-sized bath water
per capita consumption of 300 to 500 liters ofabout 1,000 tons per month. Comment bath
water," the data and take the middle value of theindustry's claim to want to invest in and asked the
hypothesis. "I have never in the Kunming Lake as ause of water, an operator mysteriously told
measure of the standard, has never posted areporters: "Shashi Hou wanted to do, I am
Kunming Lake in the '41 'of such figures in the reportresponsible to you to change lines and water meters,
is very clear on the 81.6 million tons is a hypotheticalthis industry, do not steal water simply to make
figure." Misreading of the media, Hu Kanpei no choice.money.
    As the drought in Southwest China, "41    Hu Kan Ping, in his survey, found some places
Kunming Lake," the impact of rapid fermentation,the wall of policies and regulations bathing bathing
network comments, leaders at all levels of attention,water and other water in the high post of loopholes
so that water consumption in a public bath industry,exist, "bathing water per ton of 81.68 yuan, while
the focus of attention.other projects will have to much cheaper water , the
    April 8, 2010, saving the office held a pressoperator will take perpetrating a fraud of the way,
conference in Beijing to clarify the "41 Kunming Lake"will be replaced by other names changed bathing
argument. According to figures released bywater, to reduce costs. " He also heard a number of
conference, Beijing has about 3,000 bathing sites, thesmall and medium units in collaboration with the
initial estimates, water consumption was 500 millionsurrounding bath, theft of water around the unit.
tons.    Hu Kan-ping told reporters Comment by
    But both the 81.6 million tons, or 5 million tons,understanding from the bath industry, as well as
both Hu's investigation or survey level investigation,access to a number of bathing sites offering
even in the government released the "preliminarypre-feasibility report, he learned that bathing place
estimates" data, the bath water consumption figuresbathing water consumption was 300 liters on average
in the industry is still a mystery.men, women an average of 500 liters, in order to
    First, Beijing has the actual number of bathingrelease water sector 5 million tons of annual water
sites. Comment from the charge of Beijing'sconsumption calculation, Beijing 3000 average daily
enforcement of the Beijing Municipal Waterwater bathing place about 4.56 tons, only about 10
Enforcement Bureau, in the eight urban districtsguests. "No matter the size bathing place, if only such
registered a total of 330 bathing areas, and howa passenger, is not profitable.
many homes the city's bathing place, is because