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WHAT ROLE DOES GOVERNMENT PLAY IN MWATERV POLLUTION

Prefecture governments are playing very important roles in environmental water quality management. Their responsibilities include establishing more stringent standards. Inspection of specified factories, and regulating effluents discharged from factories. They are also responsible for establishing and implementing environmental water quality monitoring programs within their justification. Aside from prefecture governments. city governments in71cities specified in the Water Pollution Control Law as “designated cities” are empowered to inspect and regulate effluent discharges of factories in their respective areas .

 Water quality monitoring is conducted in rivers four times a day throughout the year. Four times a day, i.e., every six hours, river water samples are taken to determine the daily and seasonal fluctuation of flow rates and water quality. Seasonal changes in water quality are monitored in lakes since obvious daily changes in lake water quality are seldom observed.

Pollution control measures undertaken by prefecture governments include:

1. Maintaining and constructing additional sewerage lines and sewage treatment
2. Regulating factories based on laws and ordinances;
3. systems;
4. Purifying water in waterways;
5. Controlling pollution from new high-tech industries such as the electronic industries.