Along with the increasing satisfaction of its locals, the water conservation and control work in the city is receiving fulsome praise from Zhejiang's authorities at all levels. [Photo/ zjnews.zjol.com.cn]

Quzhou city – located in East China's Zhejiang province -- was recently awarded the Dayu Cup for its achievements in water control over the past year, local media reported on May 18.

This is the seventh year in a row that Quzhou has received the highest provincial award for water control, while prior to that the city received the silver prize for three consecutive years.

The Dayu Cup represents the highest honor in Zhejiang province for water control. It is named after Dayu, a legendary ancient Chinese hero renowned for managing to control the flooding of the Yellow River. 

Quzhou has established a highly efficient organization that has undertaken a series of water protection initiatives, which last year led to the identification and resolving of more than 2,000 water-control problems.

Along with the increasing satisfaction of its locals, the water conservation and control work in the city has also been fulsomely praised by Zhejiang's authorities at all levels. The Quzhou municipal Party committee and the municipal government are making local water control a top priority.

To date, Quzhou has attained the class II quality water level in 19 water control sections run at the municipal level, five at river transition control sections in administrative areas and seven at centralized drinking water sources above the county level.