In March 2016, the establishment of water environment management department is one of the measures to improve the quality of water environment, which is responsible for the supervision and management of water environment protection.

The Ministry of environmental protection of water environment management division responsible person, in accordance with the general secretary Xi Jinping put forward the "water-saving priority, spatial equilibrium, the system of governance, hands force, the flood of ideas, it is necessary to solve the water disaster and other old problems, also in order to solve the new problem of water resources shortage, water ecological damage, water pollution etc.. In 2016, some progress has been made in pollution control, recycling and ecological protection.

In the field of pollution control, industrial agglomeration area sewage treatment, comprehensive improvement of rural environment and urban black odor water treatment and other aspects of the initial positive progress.

Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and other regions to implement the completion of the industrial cluster before the end of 2016 to focus on the construction of sewage treatment facilities, installation of automatic online monitoring device tasks. At present, 3 regional economic and Technological Development Zone, hi tech Industrial Development Zone, export processing zones and other provincial industrial agglomeration area a total of 597, 570 have been completed in accordance with the provisions of centralized sewage treatment facilities, the completion rate of 96%; 559 to install automatic online monitoring device, the completion rate of 94%.

By carrying out the comprehensive improvement of the rural environment, the country set up a drinking water source protection facilities of more than 3 thousand and 800 kilometers, the demolition of drinking water outfall more than 3 thousand and 400, the 22% formed village life sewage treatment rate of nearly 60%, the comprehensive utilization of livestock and poultry waste.

In order to solve the smelly water issues of common concern to the masses, Ministry of housing and urban rural construction, Ministry of environmental protection jointly issued the "city remediation black odor water guide", the city completed the smelly water stage of the investigation work, the establishment of city smelly water remediation monitoring platform.

In the aspect of recycling, the recycled water recycling system is constructed to minimize the discharge of wastewater.

"Water pollution prevention action plan implementation assessment regulations (Trial)" the city water conservation and protection of water resources conservation separate, water-saving work focused on assessment of city development and strengthen the management of water saving, and water saving as a binding index into the local government performance evaluation.