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The Impacts of Socioeconomic Development on Rural Drinking Water Safety in China: A Provincial-Level Comparative Analysis

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SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su11010085

Keywords

water safety; China; water policy; Pressure-State-Response; Canonical Correlation Analysis

Funding

  1. Key Technology Study of Drinking Water Safety Testing, Monitoring, Risk Evaluation, Alarming and Forecasting project, a part of China's Non-profit Health Sector Scientific Research Program [201302004]
  2. Key Technology Study for Monitoring and Control of Major Cancer Risk Factors based on Big Data Aiming at Precise Prevention and Control, a part of the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016) [2016YFC1302600]

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In China, achieving rural drinking water safetymeaning access to a safe, affordable, sufficient, and sustainable drinking water supplyremains a key challenge for government agencies and researchers. Using cross-sectional data at the provincial level, in this paper we examine the impacts of socioeconomic development on drinking water safety in rural China. Using a theoretical framework called Pressure-State-Response (PSR), existing data were organized into state and pressure indicators. Canonical Correlation Analysis was then used to analyze provincial-level relationships between the indicators. Significant drinking-water-safety-related differences were found across provinces. Our analyses suggest that, overall, China's recent and rapid socioeconomic development yielded substantial benefits for China's rural drinking water safety. However, this same development also negatively impacted rural drinking water safety via increased groundwater over-abstraction, reductions in water supply, and environmental contamination. The paper closes with a discussion of implications and options for improving drinking water policy, management, and regulation in rural China.

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