Abstract:

Facing the situation of increasingly worse water pollution, the Law on Prevention and Treatment of Water Pollution of China reveals a lot of functional failures. As a result, the amendment of the law and relevant legislation attracts a great deal of attention of national legislative bodies, administrative departments and academic circles of environmental law. To provide legislative references, this article focused on the innovation of ideas, mechanisms and institutions of water pollution legislation, and then summarized the opinions and proposals of both Chinese environmental law scholars and governmental officials. First of all, it is proposed that some new legislative ideas should be introduced into water pollution legislation. Then, ideas of establishing diverse mechanisms of water pollution regulation and control are proposed. Finally, some creative institutions for water pollution control should also be introduced, including the planning of water pollution control, the total amount control and water pollution discharge permit, protection of raw resources of drinking water, agriculture pollution control and nonpointsource pollution control, ecological reparation of basin development and protection.

Key words: water pollution control, legislation, innovation