The draft revision of the Water Law was submitted to the 25th session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee for review three times on November 2. The third draft review proposes to add provisions: “The goal is to comprehensively improve water safety and security capabilities” and “accelerate the construction of a national water network with a complete system, safe and reliable, intensive, efficient, green and intelligent, smooth circulation, and orderly regulation.” At the same time, the third draft review improved the relevant regulations on the preparation of water resources plans, adding that water resources plans should “coordinate living, production, and ecological water use”; the preparation of plans should improve public participation mechanisms and expert consultation and verification systems, and comprehensively use modern information technology and other means to improve the quality of planning preparation. In terms of further enriching the content of aquatic ecological protection, the third draft review added provisions: the implementation of water transfer projects shall improve the carrying capacity of water resources to prevent damage to the environment; the state shall implement an ecological protection compensation system to compensate regions, units and individuals that carry out aquatic ecological environment protection in accordance with regulations or agreements; determine control indicators for ecological flow and ecological water level and ecological flow discharge indicators for water engineering shall comprehensively consider factors such as water resource conditions.

The draft revision of the Water Law was submitted to the 25th session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee for review three times on November 2. The third draft review proposes to add provisions: “The goal is to comprehensively improve water safety and security capabilities” and “accelerate the construction of a national water network with a complete system, safe and reliable, intensive, efficient, green and intelligent, smooth circulation, and orderly regulation.” At the same time, the third draft review improved the relevant regulations on the preparation of water resources plans, adding that water resources plans should “coordinate living, production, and ecological water use”; the preparation of plans should improve public participation mechanisms and expert consultation and verification systems, and comprehensively use modern information technology and other means to improve the quality of planning preparation. In terms of further enriching the content of aquatic ecological protection, the third draft review added provisions: the implementation of water transfer projects shall improve the carrying capacity of water resources to prevent damage to the environment; the state shall implement an ecological protection compensation system to compensate regions, units and individuals that carry out aquatic ecological environment protection in accordance with regulations or agreements; determine control indicators for ecological flow and ecological water level and ecological flow discharge indicators for water engineering shall comprehensively consider factors such as water resource conditions.