... capacity of pollutant load of water bodies, making proposals on the limit of total wastewater discharge, and providing guidance on the protection of drinking water resources” (Ministry of Water ... treatments, and direct wastewater dumping into the water flows. A possible indicator to assess the rate of water pollution caused by each sector is looking at the percentage of Chemical Oxygen Demand ... Ministry of Water Resources was founded in 1949 to manage water resources directly under the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, it was completely reorganised in 1988 (Ministry of Water...