BEIJING, May 5 (Xinhua) -- China is speeding up completion?of a?national surface water quality monitoring?system.

People?will be able to access water?quality?information online, according to a plan?released Friday on the website of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE).?

With automated monitoring?stations,?information will be updated every four hours instead of?once a month as it is now.

China plans to have?more than?2,000 monitoring?stations by August, most of which will be?open to the?public.

The water stations are part of?a national environmental monitoring network for?air, water, soil, noise?and radiation.

China is?cleaning?its water resources, ?with a tough water pollution law in effect.