BEARING FRUIT AND FLOWERS
Musa Axim, a 60-year-old in Payzawat County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China, has formed a new habit of drinking a glass of tap water every morning since June 16, when the county for the first time got access to safe drinking water.
“It tastes sweet. For a long time in the past, we used large buckets to fetch water from a river afar, which was not clean enough, especially in flooding season,” Axim told China News Service.
The 15,300 residents in Payzawat, part of Kashgar, are the last batch of people in the region that got access to clean water. For the southern part of Xinjiang, in particular, which includes Kashgar, Kizilsu, Aksu and Hotan, where the weather is dry, people had difficulty to access safe drinking water.
In 2016, the Central Government made it a priority to bring
