WWF (The World Wide Fund for Nature) and Changzhou National Hi-Tech District’s Textile and Dyeing Industrial Park signed a pact on promoting the ‘Innovation in water management demonstration’ project in the industrial park. The WWF’s first demonstration project involving an innovative approach to water management in an industrial zone gets underway in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District’s Xixiashu Town.
The project is designed to comprehensively improve governance of the Taihu basin. WWF, which is a non-profit NGO focused on environmental protection, will team up with Changzhou National Hi-Tech District’s Textile and Dyeing Industrial Park to adopt and implement a series of innovative approaches to water management, including how to better manage the water supply and water consumption, conservation and drainage, jointly pioneering water management efforts at all levels, including at selected small, medium and large-scale businesses, throughout the industrial park as well as across the entire basin.
The efforts will include: choosing pilot companies who will improve their skills at water management; organizing an expert consulting team who will advise on innovative approaches to water management, participation in which will include the China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC), the Jiangsu Development and Reform Commission and the Taihu Fishery Management Commission of Jiangsu Province; establishing platforms for dialogues between multiple parties to establish additional demonstration pilots; and evaluating the industrial park’s influence on the surrounding basin, gradually transforming it into a model for innovation in water management and the model for proper ecological governance across the Taihu basin.
Changzhou National Hi-Tech District’s Textile and Dyeing Industrial Park is now home to more than 300 manufacturers, with total annual output value exceeding RMB 10 billion (approx US $ 1.61 billion). With the issuance of China’s strictest water resource management policies and the ‘Action Plan on Water Pollution Prevention and Treatment’, this joint statement will encourage parties to participate in the establishment of platforms, engaging companies in the campaign to improve water.
