(Photo : The "Black" Maozhou River in Shenzhen)

Home to millions of people, the river basin is scheduled for a wide-ranging clean-up project costing to more than one billion Yuan as confirmed by the Sina News and Shenzhen Evening News.

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The "Maozhou River Rehabilitation Project" is one of the parts of the proposed "Guangdong Clean Water Action Plan" intended to recover environmental conditions in the Pearl River Delta. The rehabilitation of the Maozhou River is most likely to conclude in 2015, however, the whole process face s major impediments like huge amounts of phosphorus, nitrogen and ammonia present in the river, which are 23 times greater than the amount considered safe for consumption.

Oftentimes coined as the "black river" by Shenzhen's locals, Maozhou River is the grimiest in its streams, which are crammed with construction sewage and litter accrued from close industrial compounds. According to reports of Shenzen Daily, 250 factories erected close to the river contributed for the heavy polluting but haven't done enormous things to keep the river healthy.

One of the heavily drawn in the Rehabilitation Project of the Maozhou River is the Guangming New District and its Vice Head Feng Shaohui told Shenzhen Daily that to treat wastewater and other refuse, a sewage pipe 124 kilometers long would be built in Guangming.

 Shenzhen's locals interviewed by Sina News were not really positive and most of them halfheartedly submitted themselves to the river's condition in spite of Feng's claims that the input of this pipe would be the most important step in treating pollution.

Netizens echoed this sense of skepticism in relation to the River's proposed rehabilitation, and many have claimed that their own provinces were also having the same pollution problems.