Three China-based initiatives have received grants from the Coca-Cola Foundation in recent months.

In conjunction with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing, and the Urban-Rural Department of China, The Ministry of Water Resources, and The Ministry of Health, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has issued a plan for the protection of drinking water resource of cities in China.

The China National Health Association's Water for Health Commission was formally set up on World Water Day on March 22, 2010.

Nongfu Spring, one of China's largest producers of bottled water and beverages, has donated 380,000 boxes of bottled water, worth a total of CNY13 million, to residents in Yunnan who are affected by the serious drought there.

Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission will carry out a study on water resource safety evaluation and pollution prevention technology this year to prepare for the building of an underground water quality monitoring network.

China says that, over the next two to three years, it will invest more than CNY90 billion on waste water treatment to ensure drinking water safety.

Beijing is now soliciting public opinions on a new rule on water pollution prevention which states that no tap water shall be used for water landscape sites.