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The new standards incorporate 71 new quality indicators, and are intended to standardise water quality measurements across rural and urban areas.<\/p>\n

"In some of China’s cities, water supply has been contaminated and residents are threatened with unsafe water," Xinhua quoted Zhang Chengyu, an official with the Ministry of Health, as saying.<\/p>\n

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