Beijing Waterworks Group announced Sunday that tap water in China's capital is drinkable even without being boiled.
   
The city's water supplier said Beijing's tap water has passed all the 106 tests in line with a new national drinking water standard and become the first Chinese city where tape water without being boiled is drinkable.
   
Experts with the supplier said due to many environmental factors, Beijing's tap water had been criticized by citizens.
   
The supplier has now been equipped with ozone and active carbon processing technologies to make the water clean enough to pass the standard, official with the supplier said.
   
The new national drinking water standard has been implemented since Sunday across China and necessary water quality tests have been increased from 35 to 106.
   
China's Ministry of Health has asked all local tap water suppliers to meet the new standard no later than 2012.

(Xinhua News Agency July 2, 2007)