China Water Week is here again, my country’s water quality monitoring market has great prospects

Water resources are crucial to ensuring human health, and the improvement of human health is a prerequisite for economic growth. World Bank official Claudia Sadov pointed out: "Water issues are a priority issue that a country needs to solve in order to achieve economic growth."

With the rapid development of my country's industry and agriculture , the problem of water pollution has become increasingly prominent. Groundwater in most cities in my country is subject to a certain degree of point and area pollution, and the pollution is getting worse year by year. Increasingly serious water pollution not only reduces the use function of water bodies and further aggravates the contradiction of water shortage, but also threatens the drinking water safety of urban residents and the health of the people.

According to the 2017 "China Ecological Environment Status Bulletin", among 940 surface water quality sections, the proportion of water quality worse than Class V was 8.3%. Among the 5,100 groundwater water quality monitoring points, the proportion was worse than Class V. The proportion of points with poor grade and below is 66.6%. According to the "Science" research report, nearly 20 million people in China may be harmed by arsenic-contaminated water sources...

In response to the plight of water pollution in China, the country has successively formulated the "Ten Water Rules" ", "Key River Basin Water Pollution Prevention and Control Plan (2016-2020)", "National Groundwater Pollution Prevention and Control Plan (2011-2020)" and other relevant regulations, and proposed to adhere to the priority of water conservation, strengthen water resources management, and ensure the greatest extent of governance Current status of water pollution.

To control water pollution, monitoring data is the key. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment's "Three-Year Action Plan for Ecological Environment Monitoring Quality Supervision and Inspection (2018-2020)" proposes that by 2020, a sound ecological environment monitoring data quality assurance responsibility system will be basically realized. Specific to the field of water quality monitoring, in 2019, we will focus on inspecting the operation and maintenance quality of ecological environment monitoring agencies in 10 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), key sewage discharge units in the Fenwei Plain, and 10% of the country's automatic environmental surface water monitoring sites.

It is foreseeable that with the increasingly stringent environmental quality standards and the continued strong demand for water ecosystem restoration and black and smelly water treatment, my country's water quality monitoring industry has huge market potential and development space.

According to the "Water Quality Monitoring Industry" released by the Qianzhan Industry Research InstituteData from the "Development Prospects and Investment Opportunities Analysis Report" show that in 2016, my country's entire water quality monitoring market capacity reached 5.4 billion yuan. In the future, the growth rate of my country's water quality monitoring market capacity will be more than 20%. Analysts from the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute predict that by 2022, the scale of my country's water quality monitoring market is expected to reach 18 billion yuan.

Based on this, industry experts believe that my country's water quality monitoring equipment industry will maintain rapid growth at present and in the future, with an average annual growth rate much higher than that of the environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry.

In addition, with the rapid development of analytical technology, water quality testing and monitoring are no longer just the analytical techniques such as chromatography and spectroscopy commonly used in the past, but are closely related to the rapid development of analytical chemistry technology. Fully combined, such as using high-throughput mass spectrometry technology to quantitatively analyze most inorganic anions, metal pollutants and trace organic pollutants in water systems. In addition, miniaturized, mobile, and online monitoring technology methods have gradually become water quality monitoring and early warning The development direction of technology, with the continuous improvement of the sensitivity and accuracy of online and portable monitoring instrument methods, its advantages will become more and more obvious.

While the industry continues to develop, market competition is also intensifying. For some small and medium-sized environmental protection equipment companies, they generally face more challenges. Only by aiming at the future development trend of the industry can they Bringing huge market advantages to enterprises.

　Editor’s comment:Water quality monitoring is the process of monitoring and measuring the types of pollutants in water bodies, the concentrations and changing trends of various pollutants, and evaluating water quality conditions. It is the basis for formulating pollution control plans. In terms of drinking water safety, there are extremely high requirements for water quality monitoring. As far as the current situation is concerned, our country attaches great importance to drinking water safety and environmental governance, providing broad development space for water quality monitoring and monitoring markets.

　(Original title: China Water Week is here again and my country’s water quality monitoring market has great prospects)