Research On Legal System Of Drinking Water Safety In China

Drinking water is a basic human survival needs. CPC Central Committee and State Council attached great importance to drinking water safety, General Secretary Jintao Hu; Premier Jiabao Wen made important instructions on many occasions. In recent years, the central and local urban and rural drinking water safety to increase the intensity of work, adopted a series of engineering and management measures to address a number of urban and rural drinking water safety. However, drinking water is still very serious security situation, many areas of water shortages, increasing pollution of drinking water in some cities and some rural areas there is brackish water or containing fluorine, high arsenic and pathogens, schistosomes and other issues, the body of the people A serious health threat. From 2000 to 2007, China Hunan, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Anhui, Jiangxi, have occurred in many parts of the serious drinking water contamination, causing drinking water to local people's life, threatening public health. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in his Millennium Report·pointed out: "developing countries to reduce disease, save lives, any measures are not as good access to safe water and adequate sanitation. " visible safe drinking water Issues affecting national security, social stability and people's health a major issue.As the economy of developing the people's living standard continuously improved, the economic form of while the environment is a great question then comes, resources excessive use and inappropriate in the development of serious waste of resources and shortage makes problems. Water resources are indispensable to the survival of people and resources of production; it is the blood of the earth. Drinking water resources are relation with people's lives and health. As the magnitude of the problem of drinking water security, water security has become the focus of attention around the world, our country safe drinking water is also related to legal protection, but the existing law can not adequately protect the safety of drinking water. In this paper, by comparing the domestic and international legal protection of the similarities and differences between the safety of drinking water, draw on foreign experience to reform the legal protection of drinking water safety.Paper is divided into four parts. The first part is an overview of drinking water safety, interpretation of this part of the safety of drinking water from three aspects: Firstly, the content of drinking water safety; the second:the need for legal protection of drinking water safety; the third:the basic legal protection of drinking water safety principles. Usually that means drinking water safety of drinking water to human life and health not in danger, damage, interference and other adverse effects; the emergence of fresh water resources, water crisis and the serious water pollution, drinking water safety is really necessary protection of the law; drinking water security laws to protect the spirit of public service, absolute priority, security, fairness, the principle of state support to subsistence and right to life and health, water rights, environmental rights as the legal basis to establish a sound legal, according to the law for protection. The second part of the legal protection of drinking water safety system, this part of the comparative safety of drinking water mainly for domestic and international legal protection for different ways to approach, borrowing the excellent results of the Improvement of the security system.. This part of the explanation from three aspects:Firstly, China and relevant laws to protect drinking water safety management system; Second:Foreign legal protection of drinking water safety management system; Third:domestic and international legal protection of drinking water safety management system Comparison and Experience. From our existing laws to protect drinking water safety for the starting point, analysis of the current situation and insufficient legal basis, describing the United States, Japan, the developed countries to protect drinking water safety management system, comparing the differences between domestic and foreign, United States and Japan learn from the experience of Improvement of the management system..The third part of the Legal Protection of drinking water safety, safety of drinking water in this part of the main comparison of different domestic and international legal protection system, its essence to its dregs the Improvement of the legal protection of the basic system. This part of the explanation from three aspects: Firstly, the legal protection of our drinking water, basic system security status and defects; Second:the legal protection of foreign safety of drinking water systems; Third:domestic and international legal protection of the basic system of drinking water safety Comparison and Experience. The safety of drinking water law system of status and defects biggest problem is inadequate supply of law, several existing laws to protect drinking water can not meet the security needs. Our basic system safety and security of drinking water include drinking water source protection zones, water quality mark system and the emergency response system.. These systems also exists in foreign countries, but they have different details, in the comparison between the two. the lessons of experience abroad, improve safety and security of our drinking water, basic systems, improve the water system of protected areas, improve water quality standard system, improve water quality monitoring system, improve the emergency response system, a stable investment system, the establishment of water conservation systems and the establishment of transmission and distribution pipeline network security system.The fourth part is the responsibility of legal protection of drinking water safety, the law comes with responsibility, this part of the main subjects for different violations of the laws and regulations and assume responsibility for the main line of different interpretation of the law to protect our drinking water safety responsibilities. This part of the explanation from three aspects:Firstly, the legal protection of our drinking water safe legal basis for liability and status; Second:drinking water safety laws to protect foreign liability; Third:domestic and international legal protection of drinking water safety Comparison of liability and the Experience. Legal protection of our drinking water safety is the responsibility of the legal status of the inadequate supply of punishment strong enough and law enforcement, have studied abroad with the responsibility of the system learn from its experience to reform the liability system to civil liability, administrative liability and criminal liability as the main line construction in China legal protection of drinking water safety responsibility system.In recent years, the outstanding issues with the safety of drinking water have been more and more scholars are concerned about. Currently, the use of technical means to ensure the safety of drinking water has reached a high degree of safe drinking water; legal research efforts are relatively weak. Ministry of Health, wading Experts Committee, the Chinese Military Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor Zenghui Liang write "urgent attention to safe drinking water" reminds us again of the safety problems of drinking water is imminent. University of Economics, University of Politics and Law Professor Zhongmei Lv wrote, "Legal protection of safe drinking water-And on," Water Pollution Control Act "change" in the legal significance of drinking water safety and legal options, and with the Water Pollution Control The relationship between law changes made a more systematic exposition. Northeast Forestry University, Lin Yi's "China's urban legal safeguards for the safety of drinking water, "a paper presented for the safety of municipal drinking water a more comprehensive legal safeguards. Ministry of Construction, Yue Zhang wrote, "how to safeguard drinking water safety," the article discusses the system of drinking water protection measures. There are other scholars are also concerned about drinking water safety to varying degrees, but generally speaking, the safety of drinking water law issues still in its infancy, but also need more people involved, more in-depth studies and research Legislation to facilitate the improvement of drinking water safety.