Rural China: Part 7 – A Tap in Every Home

In the seventh part of the Rural China series, China Daily reporter D J Clark visits Shengxianzhai village where a new water system has recently been put in place. Six years ago China's ministry of water resources estimated 300 million rural residents did not have access to safe drinking water and set about creating a plan to put a tap in every home by 2020. In this small Guangdong village Clark discovers the benefits of treated drinking water in a community that used to have to walk two kilometres to fetch water that would not make them sick.