如今,农村的生活条件比过去大大改善了,但落后的卫生面貌却远远滞后于经济发展。在农村很多村庄,农民的人畜用水、洗衣洗菜,清洗农具大都共用一个池塘,较富裕的农户可以花钱在自家打个深井取水饮用,而大部分农民喝的用的,仍是池塘里的不洁之水甚至是污染之水。因而在各地农村推行的改水工程,大都列入政府为农民办实事的目标之中。可是要让自来水流进农村千家万户,其巨额投资让政府难以承担,而成本过高农民也 Nowadays, the living conditions in rural areas have greatly improved over the past, but the backward hygienic outlook lags far behind economic development. In many villages in rural areas, peasants’ water for human and livestock use, laundry and vegetables, and most of the cleaning tools share the same pond. The richer farmers can spend money in their own homes to make drinking water for drinking in deep wells. Most of the peasants use the ponds for drinking Dirty water or even contaminated water. Therefore, the water improvement projects in rural areas throughout the country are mostly included in the government’s goal of doing practical work for the peasants. However, tap water should flow into every household in rural areas, and its huge investment will make it hard for the government to bear and the cost is too high for peasants